A Square of Sky
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 her memoirs of a wartime childhood, A Square of Sky, Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it became 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 became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered.
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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 her memoirs of a wartime childhood, A Square of Sky, Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it became 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 became too dangerous, she was sent with false identity papers to a Catholic convent, where she lived in constant fear of being discovered.
