The novel 'We Are the Children of the Wall' is Michael Yarwood's third novel set in Warsaw, Poland during the Nazi occupation 1942-44. This is the true story based on young gang of food smugglers, who risked life and limb to go over or under the Jewish Ghetto wall to bring back essential food supplies to keep family and friends alive during the Nazi resettlement plans.

Among the Jewish victims caught smuggling, there were tens of Jewish children between the 5 and 6 years, whom the German killers shot in great numbers near the passages and at the Ghetto wall. Despite all of this, without paying attention to the victims, the smuggling never stopped for a moment. Several times captured smugglers were herded down to the central lock-up on Gesiowka Street, to wait until the Germans decided it was time to shoot them. Usually they were shot on the same day.

When the street was still slippery with blood that had been spilled, undeterred by the executions more young smugglers set out, as soon as the "candles" (lookouts) had signalled the way was clear, to carry on with the work.