Monday, 20 April 2009


Summary

Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet daily and help each other out. However, both of them lives alone. Maria’s parents were actually anti-Nazi underground activists and they sheltered Janina and her mother. However, Janina’s mother died and the Janina had to cling desperately to her new family. She was baptized to become part of the family to avoid being detected and killed by the Nazis. During the Warsaw Uprising, the girls had to fend for themselves as Maria's father was sick and her mother was demonstrating against the Nazis. Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina as she lost both parents. Her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicide. Janina then contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to recognise Maria and her parents for saving her during World War I and the cash reward can improve Maria’s financial situation


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Posted at 6:04 pm