THE CIGARETTE SELLERS OF THREE CROSSES SQUARE

The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square is the true story of agroup of Jewish children who managed to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto in1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the Nazi-occupied city. After thedestruction of the ghetto, these children came together for mutual succor.Sentenced to death, hounded at every step, they kept themselves alive bypeddling cigarettes in Warsaw's Three Crosses Square - where the author, amember of the Jewish Underground in Poland, met and helped them andrecorded their story. Several of the children were finally caught andkilled, but most survived.