summary (:

Today Janina Pietrasiak and Maria Lopuszanska live like sisters. They meet all the time, meet each other's wants, end their sentences and help out. She stays in a small room, live by themselves and are poor.Maria’s parents, members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground, are anti-Nazi underground activists.They gave shelter to Janina and her mother in their small apartment.janina’s mother died of tuberculosis.Then ,8, she joined the Catholic home, clung desperately to her new family to avoid being detected and killed by the Nazis.She gave up the chance to live with an uncle in the United States.During the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the girls had to survive for themselves .Maria's father was sick.And her mother had surrendered to Nazis .Janine would cover herself in the elder’s skirt when the bombs exploded . Maria was like a mother to the Janina.anina lost both parents. Her only sibling survived the war but later committed suicideboth suffered from cancer. Maria is a breast cancer survivor. Janina is separated and now a widow.