 The name " Robinsons " has also been used to refer to those Jews who hid out in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising . Uri Orlev 's ( Jerzy Orlowski ) children 's book The Island on Bird Street ( 1981 ) , adapted into a 1997 film , tells the story of an 11 @-@ year @-@ old boy who hides out in the ruins of the ghetto . Orlev also draws analogies with Robinson Crusoe in this work ; in fact one of the few things Alex , the story 's protagonist , possesses is a copy of Defoe 's novel . 
