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Subject: 70 years ago
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urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:01am
On the morning of 22 July 1942, soldiers marched the first group of 6,000 Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto to the railway sidings, the Umshlag Platz, and put them on trains to the Treblinka gas facility. * +

urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:01am
Janina Dawidowicz, born in 1930, is one of the few people who lived in the ghetto and survived. She recalls the posters going up, ordering residents to report to the Umshlag Platz at 11 o'clock. Any one disobeying would be shot. * +

urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:02am
In the last weeks of the ghetto, in the winter of 1942, Janina's parents managed to smuggle her out to Christian Warsaw. As her father had police papers, he was allowed to escort lorries through the gates, so she slipped out with him. * +

urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:03am
Her parents stayed behind. She never saw them again. Janina thinks her father died in the Majdanek extermination camp. She does not know how or where her mother was killed. * +

urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:03am
After two years in a children's home, Janina sailed in a ship full of emigrants to start a new life in Melbourne, Australia, where she got a job in a factory. It was in Australia that she managed, finally, to resume her education, and qualified as a social worker. * +

urvoice1 22.07.12 - 02:04am
Homesick for Europe, she moved to London in 1958, where she began to write down her experiences in order to make sense of her life. She became a writer and translator, and has lived in London ever since. we will never forget. * +

fireyes 22.07.12 - 02:11am
I'm glad it worked out for her. Sucks about her parents and the thousands who didn't make it * +

iilmadme 22.07.12 - 02:15am
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