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This is the astonishing, true story of a group of Jewish children who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the Nazi-occupied city. Sentenced to death, hounded at every step, they kept themselves alive by peddling cigarettes in Warsaw's Three Crosses Square - where the author, a member of the Jewish Underground in Poland, met and helped them and recorded their story. Several of the children were finally caught and killed, but most survived and are alive today. The story of the cigarette sellers has been published in Polish, Rumanian, Hebrew and Yiddish, and a dramatised version has been broadcast in Israel. The book was awarded a literary prize by the World Jewish Congress in New York.

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Joseph Ziemian was born in Warsaw in 1922. During World War II, he worked at first in the ghetto at 'Centos' (Institution for Childrens' Social Welfare), and then, posing as a non-Jew, in the Aryan section of the town. There as a member of the Jewish Resistance Movement, he took care of hundreds of Jews in hiding (including the group whose fate was decided in this book). After the war he graduated from the civil engineering department of the Warsaw Polytechnic.When he finished his studies, Mr Ziemian moved to Israel with his wife and son where he worked as acivil engineer. He died in January 1971.

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