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...need to think about the near future, which is the ghetto. Then it will be impossible to see anyone, neither Micka, who lives in Kamionka C, nor Janek, who lives in D, and not Nica, who lives in D. And then what will happen...
...Micka today. I don't know with what these "dubious" lovers attract her, to the point that she refuses to get into a quarrel with them. They are so dazzled by her and think that every boy should be in love with her. Of course, I ascribe this to Janek, but Janek finds her disgusting (I don't know why). I think Janek likes me very much. But it doesn't matter to me, either...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "A Mother for Janek." dramatizes the story of a boy orphaned during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and sent to the U.S. to live...
Like many a wartime child in whatever country, Janek becomes a man long before he stops being a boy. He learns about bravery and suffering before he can comprehend their motivation. His first and only love affair is with a girl not much older than he who is both a prostitute for the German troops and a spy for the partisans. He sees his comrades die while other Poles play the black-market game, digs for acorns in the snow when the last potato is gone. And all the time he remains in part a baffled child who avidly reads...
...Janek's hope, like the hope of many another innocent, is that Russia and the U.S., as victors, would "build a new world together." But already some know better. "You are such a child, Janek," says his child-mistress...