"Life Strictly Forbidden is the memoirs of well-known Polish writer,Antoni Marianowicz, told partly through interviews with journalist HannaBaltyn, and partly through personal recollections of his family before theWar and during the Occupation." The Marianowicz family were wealthybourgeoisie. But, at the age of 16, Antoni was forced to live in theWarsaw ghetto. After 18 months he fled from the ghetto and managed tosurvive for three years (1942-45) hiding out in a small provincial townnear Warsaw where, paradoxically, he and other Jewish refugees hid in aglass factory that belonged to the Waffen-SS.