Ebook: A Square of Sky : a Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland
Author: Janina David
- Tags: David Janina -- 1930-, Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography., World War 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland., Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw., David Janina 1930-, Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography., Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography., HISTORY -- Europe -- Western., Jewish children in the Holocaust., Jewish ghettos., Jews., Poland., Poland -- Warsaw.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Eland Publishing
- City: London, Poland--Warsaw., Poland
- Language: English
- epub
At the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. A year later they were all on the verge of starvation, sharing a small room in the Warsaw ghetto. When it became clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year-old girl was smuggled out to live with family friends. When their home became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Read more...
Abstract: At the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. A year later they were all on the verge of starvation, sharing a small room in the Warsaw ghetto. When it became clear that none of them was likely to survive, the thirteen-year-old girl was smuggled out to live with family friends. When their home became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered. In this memoir David records the events around her through the eyes of a child, lonely and terrified, yet her