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Janina Hescheles Altman wrote her first book at the age of twelve as an orphan. She wrote it in hiding, after being rescued from the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov in 1943, two weeks before its liquidation. Her testimony about her experiences in the camp has made her known as the 'Polish Anne Frank'. It has been the subject of several films and plays and has been translated to nine different languages. The book has now appeared in English and is available in Amazon.
Not to be defeated by this traumatic start in life, Janina graduated from highschool while still living in the orphanage and emigrated to Israel in 1950. There, she went on to do her doctorate and become a research scientist in chemistry. She authored scientific, fiction and historical books: Gold - From the Depth of the Earth to Outer Space (1977), Zahava (1977) and The White Rose (2007) about the resistance organisation of German students against the Nazi regime. The first two books written by her in Israel - They are Still Alive (1969), which received the ACUM Israeli prize, and What Will Tomorrow Bring (1972) appeared under the pseudonym Zvia Eitan.
Janina married the physicist Colman Altman and has two sons, Eitan and Zwi. A lifelong defender for human values, today at 89, Janina continues to demonstrate with the peace movement 'Women in Black' in Haifa.
Theatre and shows on Janina:
• Play « Janina », Polish with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCDbKbrVFtY&list=PLrqp6O9wqktg07ICmDB7I84zIsaO76igJ&index=1
• The monodrama “Janina”: Hebrew, English subtitles. Written, staged and performed by Bilha Mass Asherov Editing assistant: Hadas Bar, Music: Gadi Ronen Stage decoration: Eitan Levy, Animation: Mish Assistant stage directors: Orna Aked, Rivka Shonsho Recorded songs: Chen Asherov Entire play 53mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ShKemz3OKA&list=PLrqp6O9wqktg07ICmDB7I84zIsaO76igJ&index=7
• Les cahiers de Janina, (French) Performance at high-school Lycée Felix Faure Beauvais https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrqp6O9wqktgDOTQJH3ecYA8v5JN3-t3F
Films on Janina
• Short documentary 15mins « Janina » Produced by Chen Shelach for the Ghetto Fighter’s House 2015. Hebrew with English subtitles. https://youtu.be/y7hzrU6HxeY
• « Les Carnets de Janina » (Janina’s notebooks), by Isabelle Vayron. France, documentary, 52 mn, Talweg Vincent Gazaigne- Vosges TV, 2017. With the support of the Foundation for the memory of the Holocaust, http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/evenements-expositions/projections/carnet-de-janina-de-isabelle-vayron-de-moureyre.html English version: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/janinasnotebooks
• Janina’s Return to Lwow by Vadim Tader, supported by Hesed Arie, Lwow. part 1 : 2014, documentary film on Janina followed by the theatre show Janina, duration 1h05, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCDbKbrVFtY&list=PLrqp6O9wqktg07ICmDB7I84zIsaO76igJ&index=1 ; part 2 documents the visit of Janina to Lwow on 2018, duration 1h39 phttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbr-E_hLUA&list=PLrqp6O9wqktg07ICmDB7I84zIsaO76igJ&index=6
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