Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They see each other every day, tend to each other's needs. They meet daily and help each other out. Maria lives in a tiny room in a nursing homeBoth lives alone and are not affluent. Janina lives alone in a modest apartment. Maria’s parents were members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground. They gave shelter in their Warsaw apartment in 1942 to Janina and her mother. They sheltered Janina and her mother. Janina’s mother died of tuberculosis. Janina, not yet 8, when she joined the Catholic home, clung desperately to her new family. 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. Maria's father was sick. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina.
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