Copyrighted to Eric Sim
Copyrighted to Eric Sim
Copyrighted to Eric Sim

Monday, April 20, 2009
Summary

today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out. Both of them live alone and are not affluent. Maria's parents were underground anti-Naziactivists. They sheltered Janina and her mother. However, her 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 the Nazis. she even gave up the opportunity to live with her uncle in the United States. During the Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend for themselves as, maria's father was sick and her mother was demonstrating by the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina as she have lost both parents. Her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Both Janina and maria suffered from cancer. Janina was separated and maria is a widow. She contacted the Yad Vashem Holocast museum in Jerusalem to recognise Maria and her parents for saving her during the WWI. The cash award help Maria's financial situation.

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