Given name: Jola Family name: Unknown

  • YES
  • Female
  • Jola
  • 1942

  • Janina David's friend.
    She was taken during the first deportation action.
    She was shot by a German, while trying to escape from the Umschlagplatz.

  • children

  • A skinny child with long legs. Sometimes she wound them around a chair and forgot to unwind them, so she fell often. She had a round, freckled face, bright blue eyes and chestnut curls.

  • 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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