Given name: Unknown Family name: Beatus

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  • Male
  • Beatus

  • He lived in one apartment with the Davids and his wife. Before the war he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1939 he returned to Warsaw with his fiancee to get married. The war broke before they had time to return to France. He was a Jewish policeman.

  • Intelligentsia

  • A thin, young man. He had a small face hidden between enormous glasses. He was myopic and he bumped into furniture and tripped over things, all the time.

  • 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.

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