A POWERFUL TRUE STORY OF COURAGE AND SURVIVAL IN THE WARSAW GHETTO
‘Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman’s are important and should never be allowed to fade away’ MARGARET FORSTER
‘A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read’ ALAN SILLITOE, NEW STATESMAN
Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War.
When Hitler’s decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, bright, lively Janina suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first, the curfews and casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the ‘Aryan’ side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal.
Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman’s courage and survival.
‘Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman’s are important and should never be allowed to fade away’ MARGARET FORSTER
‘A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read’ ALAN SILLITOE, NEW STATESMAN
Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War.
When Hitler’s decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, bright, lively Janina suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first, the curfews and casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the ‘Aryan’ side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal.
Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman’s courage and survival.
