Janina and Celia spend a sleepless night. 'Are...

Janina and Celia spend a sleepless night. 'Are you sure that you want to go? Because if not, we will not force you' - Celia asked. Janina doesn't know what to say. One thing she cannot say for sure - she was leaving home for ever, she will never see her parents again. She can't say it loud, because as long as she doesn't this thought is not true. But once put into words she would be passing a death sentence.

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.