Today, Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out. Both of them lives alone and are not affluent. Maria's parents were anti-Nazi underground activists who sheltered Janina and her mother. Janina's mother died of tuberculosis. Young Janina clung desperately to her new family, baptized to become part of the family to avoid being detected and killed by the Nazis. She even gave up chance to live with her uncle in the United States. During the Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend for themselves. Maria's father fell sick and her mother was demonstrating against the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina. Janina had lost both parents. Her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Both Maria and Janina suffered from cancer. She contacted the Yad Washem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to recognize Maria and her parents for saving her during WW1.
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