Cousin Rosa gave birth to a baby in the ghetto...

Cousin Rosa gave birth to a baby in the ghetto. Her husband was working, but their main source of supply were the parcels coming from abroad. When the parcels were stopped, her baby ceased to thrive. It stopped walking and went back to crawling. It lay in bed and didn\'t even have the strength to cry. \'Celia, when Janina was born we trembled every time she refused to eat spinach and skipped one meal, now I am watching my baby die from starvation - where is the justice?\' - Rosa used to say.

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.