Mark rarely told his family about the dangerou...

Mark rarely told his family about the dangerous episodes from his daily trips to the 'other' side. Only when he was more troubled and exhausted than usual, the story would come out.
A colleague bought a few ounces of butter and spread it on his sandwich to take back to his wife. The German opened the sandwich and shot him dead...
Another day the whole group was smuggling a bag of potatoes in the cart. The German suspected something and ordered them to unload the cart. Everyone froze, paralysed with fright. Only Mark came to his senses in time and began unloading the cart, very energetically. He ordered the rest of the group to do the same. They were doing it so fervently, making so much dust around them, that the discouraged German told them to stop. And they were nearly reaching the bottom of the cart where the bag lay...

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.