Janina sometimes hears her father say - ' I mu...

Janina sometimes hears her father say - ' I must last as long as Janie is here. When she goes I'll give up. When she is safe then I'll know that I can die in peace'.
Janina then thought - should she leave the ghetto? Can she leave them here knowing that without her, they won't want to live? No - certainly not - if they are to die, it must happen together, if they are to live they can also do it olny together.

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.