A Square of Sky
A Wartime Childhood: from Ghetto to Convent
Author: Janina Davis
At the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland.
At the age of nine Janina David led a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland.
Print house: Eland Publishing
Weight: 1.05 kg
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 420 pp., paperback