The 'action' was called off. The Davids emerge...

The 'action' was called off. The Davids emerge from their cellar and enter the apartment on the top floor. They spend the whole day cleaning in order to occupy their thoughts with something. In the evening Mark declares that Janina is going to leave the ghetto tomorrow.

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.