A child learns, almost instinctively, how to survive. In this conversation, Hava recalls her early childhood in wartime Europe—beginning in 1941, when the Germans entered Lviv. What emerges is not a single dramatic moment, but a series of quiet adaptations: speaking the “right” language, accepting a new name, moving between identities, and living for years separated from family. She is sent away under an assumed identity. She lives with strangers, prays in churches, sings to soldiers, hides what she knows, and learns—without being taught—how to belong wherever she must. Later, she reflects on these years not as tragedy alone, but as a way of living guided by instinct, resilience, and self-preservation.