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Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out. Both lives alone and are not affluent. Janina lives alone in a apartment Maria’s parents were anti-Nazi underground activists. They sheltered Janina. 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 gave up the chance to live with her uncle. 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 Janina. She lost both parents. Her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Both suffered from cancer. Maria is a breast cancer survivor. she is also widow. Her husband died She contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and to recognise Maria and her parents for saving her during WWI.