Janina wrote the best essay that Mrs. Bloch ha...

Janina wrote the best essay that Mrs. Bloch had from all her students. She was so proud of Janina that she sometimes took her to her other classes, so that Janina could read her essay to everybody.
This was an occasion for Janina to see how the other houses in the ghetto looked like.
She was surprised when in one of the flats she saw a table on which there was a basket of bread, surrounded by butter, cheese, cream and jam. So there were still families where breakfast was eaten together and where half-eaten sandwiches were left on the table...

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.