ForewordIntroductionChronicle of LvovPhotos1. Father comes Home2. The Germans enter the City: The First Pogrom3. The Jewish Quarter4. The ‘Great Aktion’ of August 19425. On the Aryan side6. The Arrest7. Back to the Ghetto8. Separation from Mother9. In the D.A.W. and the Janowski camp10. The Hanging11. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in the camp - FlightEpiloguePoems by Janina 1941-1945AcknowledgmentsCitations from Forewords, Afterwords and FilmsNotesKind Review RequestFurther ReadingGlossaryIndexThe twelve-year-old Janina Hescheles wrote this report from her hiding place in Cracow. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov and mass murder in the Janowska camp.While still a twelve-year-old girl, Janina Hescheles wrote this report from her hiding place in Cracow. The grey notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age.After the destruction by the Nazis of the Jewish ghetto in Lvov with all its inmates in 1943, Janina, who had been outside of the ghetto slips into the German Army Workshops (where Army uniforms were being sewn) in the Janowski concentration camp. This is the only place where fellow Jews could be found.She finds, aside from the Nazi bestiality, human kindness and solidarity. At one time, she is even offered a hard-boiled egg by a woman who doesn’t have too much to eat herself. In the municipal baths, where they are taken to shower in order to prevent typhus into the camp workshops, the bigger and stronger women always make place for her under the over-crowded showers. Polish women risk their lives to help this Jewish girl to escape from the camp before its liquidation.While still a twelve-year-old girl, Janina Hescheles wrote this report from her hiding place in Cracow. The grey notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age.After the destruction by the Nazis of the Jewish ghetto in Lvov with all its inmates in 1943, Janina, who had been outside of the ghetto slips into the German Army Workshops (where Army uniforms were being sewn) in the Janowski concentration camp. This is the only place where fellow Jews could be found.She finds, aside from the Nazi bestiality, human kindness and solidarity. At one time, she is even offered a hard-boiled egg by a woman who doesn’t have too much to eat herself. In the municipal baths, where they are taken to shower in order to prevent typhus into the camp workshops, the bigger and stronger women always make place for her under the over-crowded showers. Polish women risk their lives to help this Jewish girl to escape from the camp before its liquidation.