Summary

Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They


meet daily and help each other. Both lives alone and are not affluent as Janina lives alone in a modest apartment. During the war Maria’s parents were anti-Nazi underground activists who sheltered Janina and her mother. But Janina’s mother died of tuberculosis and young Janina had to cling desperately to her new family. She was baptized to become part of the family to avoid being detected and killed by the Nazis during the war she gave up the chance to live with an uncle in the United States as she loved her new family. During Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend for themselves as Maria's father was sick and her mother were demonstrating against the Nazis. During that time Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina as Janina lost both parents. Janina contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem and recognise Maria and her parents for saving her during WWI.