Janina takes her First Communion. She prays fe...

Janina takes her First Communion. She prays fervently to God, she asks him to let her see her parents again. In the corner of the room she sees Sister Janina, she is also praying and Janina knows that she is asking God the same things for her.

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.