Janina feels safe in her new home. The block i...

Janina feels safe in her new home. The block is mainly occupied by policemen and their families. There are lots of children Janina's age. The block has it's own courtyard, which is seperated from the street. None of the children are allowed to go out, so they live in their own world, pushing the reality away from them.

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.