Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other. Both lives alone and are not affluent. Maria’s parents were anti-Nazi underground activists, they sheltered Janina and her mother. Janina’s mother died of tuberculosis. The young Janina clung desperately to her new family, she was baptized to become part of the family to avoid being detected and killed by Nazis. Janina gave up the chance living with an uncle in the United States. During the Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend for themselves. Maria's father was sick and her mother were demonstrating against the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina. Janina lost both parents, her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Janina is separated. Maria is a widow. She contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to recognise Maria's family for saving her during WWI.
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