Janina bauman biography books
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Janina Bauman
Janina Bauman, in the words of one of many friends, was "a truly beautiful person, who made things golden" Yet her serene demeanour and dreamy, thoughtful disposition, belied the turbulence of her early life as witness to the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and post-war anti-Semitic purges in socialist Poland.
Janina bauman biography books
Her testament to the times and to the enduring human spirit, came in the form of two autobiographical volumes: Winter in the Morning (Virago 1986), based on diaries kept as a young girl during the war, and A Dream of Belonging (Virago, 1988) (republished jointly as "Beyond These Walls", Virago 2009).
She was born in Warsaw in 1926 into an assimilated ,educated, well off Jewish family of doctors.
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 put an end to an idyllic childhood and saw Janina, her sister, Zosia, and their mother incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto, and later, following their escape, beyond its walls.
It was when hiding in the house of a peasant woman i