Summary

Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out. Both lives alone and are not affluent while Janina live in a modest apartment. Maria’s parents were anti- Nazi underground activists and sheltered Janina and her mother. Janina’s mother died of tuberculosis and Janina clund desperately to her new family. She was baptized to become part of the family to avoid being killed by the Nazis. She gave up the chance to live 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 was demonstrating against the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina. She lost both parents and her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Maria is a breast cancer survivor and Janina separated from her husband.