Janina David

Janina Dawidowicz (19 March 1930 – 22 October 2023), better known as Janina David, was a Polish-British Holocaust survivor, writer and translator.

Biography Janina David was born in Kalisz, Poland on 19 March 1930. The only child to a Jewish Polish family, she moved with them to Warsaw in 1939. After she escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, taking refuge with a Polish family of Henryk Rajski and then in a convent,

Books 1964 A Square of Sky: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland 1966 A Touch of Earth: A Wartime Childhood 1995 Light Over the Water: Post-war Wanderings 1946-48 1969 Part of the Main 1992 A Square of Sky: A Wartime Childhood from Ghetto to Convent (a republication of A Square of Sky and A Touch of Earth in a single volume)

Film Franz Peter Wirth filmed Leo Lehmann's adaptation of the book A Square of Sky as the 1982 mini-series Ein Stück Himmel for the ARD and the leading actress Dana Vávrová became popular in Germany in the role of Janina David.

Theatre Janina David's autobiography A Square of Sky was the basis for a theatre show with the same title.

Honours 1982 - Goldener Gong for Ein Stück Himmel, together with Dana Vávrová and Franz Peter Wirth