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Advertise with the Times People as prey: Being hunted down by
the Nazis [Photo: Anne Frank: A History for Today] Janina Bauman
lived in Poland until 1968 when she emigrated to England. Shes
written a book about her life called Winter in the Morning. By
JOYCE APSEL © St. Petersburg Times, published March 8, 2000 Anne
Frank wrote in her diary about feeling lucky compared to most
people because she was hiding in an annex with her family in
Nazi-occupied Holland. She also at times was terrified, "being
hunted like slaves of long ago." Indeed, Anne Frank and the
others hiding in the annex were in an unusual circumstance,
being able to stay in one place so long and staying together as
a family with daily contact with their helpers. Each
individual's story in hiding is different, but Janina, Anne and
millions of people fleeing the Nazis and their persecution and
extermination policy all were constantly fearful of discovery,
betrayal and arrest. Janina and her f