Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

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Using diaries she kept as a teenager, Janina Bauman describes the horror of the siege and surrender of Warsaw in 1939. Along with a curfew came raids, beatings and enforced moves into what the Nazis designated as the Jewish ghetto. Relatives and friends disappeared and food became scarce. Forever on the move to avoid deportation to the camps, escape to the "Aryan" side was followed by years of hiding, terror and finally hope.

Comfortable family life in Warsaw for the family of Janina Bauman (born 1926) was destroyed with the outbreak of war. She has worked in Polish film as a translator, researcher and script editor. She now lives in Leeds with her family.

'A magnificent testimony to the people of the ghetto ... a profound autobiographical meditation' - New Society 'A deeply moving but surprisingly unselfpitying book, a real pleasure to read' - TES '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