Not far from Janina's house a children's playg...

Not far from Janina's house a children's playground was open. Celia enrolled Janina there three times a week although the admission price was high.
Celia did not want Janina to spend so much time in the courtyard which was always crowded and the smell of foul rubbish was becoming unbearable.

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.