Janina's meals were monotonous and not very ta...

Janina's meals were monotonous and not very tasteful. Despite this she would eat everything given to her on the plate.
One day Mark declared that he would rather die of starvation than eat horse meat. Eating a horse would be like eating a human being.
Janina and her Mother exchanged a quick glance. They had been eating horse meat for over a year now, calling it beef, and Father cleaned his plate as well as Janina.

At the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto.
In the memoirs of wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it becomes clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year old girl was smuggled out of the ghetto to live with family friends - a Polish woman and her German - born husband. When their home becomes too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered.