Winter in the Morning; A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945
New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1986. First American Edition [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 195, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Includes Acknowledgments, Why? And Why Now?; Postscript; and Chronology. The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc. Chapters cover The Peaceful Years; Border Street; Behind the Walls; The Walls Tighten Around Us; Beyond the Walls; On the Run; Out of Hiding; and Winter into Spring. Also includes Postscript and Chronology. The coming-of-age of a young girl during World War II. She was born to a wealthy doctor, then she and her family were rounded up and imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to live a disease-ridden, hand-to-mouth existence, always in the presence of death. The family then escaped to the "Aryan" side where they had to slip from one safe-house to another, in constant fear of discovery and under the constant threat of blackmail. Janina Bauman (née Lewinson; 18 August 1926, in Warsaw – 29 December 2009, in Leeds) was a Polish journalist and writer of Jewish origin. She was the daughter of Szymon Lewinson (1896–1940), a urologist and Polish Army officer murdered in the Katyn massacre. During World War II she was a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto with her mother and sister. They managed to escape and were sheltered by a peasant family in the countryside. After the war she studied journalism at the Warsaw Academy of Political and Social Science, where she met her future husband, Zygmunt Bauman. She subsequently worked in the film industry as a translator, researcher and script editor. She left Poland with her husband in 1968 after the anti-Semitic purges, that followed the March 1968 events. More