EDITED SUMMARY
Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out, Janina lives alone. Maria’s parent were anti-Nazi underground activist, they sheltered Jania and her mother whom 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 the Nazis. Thus she gave up living with an uncle in the United States. During the Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend her themselves. As Maria’s father was sick and her mother were demonstrating against the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina whom lost both parents. Her only sibling committed suicide. Both suffered from cancer. Maria had breast cancer, Janina is separated while Maria is a widow. She contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, to recognize Maria and her parents for saving her during WWI. Those cash can improve Maria’s financial situation