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A Square of Sky
  • ISBN: 9780907871736
  • Pages: 432
  • Publisher: Eland
  • Binding: Paperback

A Square of Sky

A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland

Janina David
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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 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.



Belated Reparation

Rereading the books of one’s youth is always a hazardous business, since a magic once lost can never be regained, so I contemplated a fresh assault on A Square of Sky with pleasure tinged with...

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