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Today Janina Pietrasiak, 74, and Maria Lopuszanska, 79, live like sisters just around the corner from each other.Maria was the teenage daughter of members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground.Roza Feldman Feldman soon died of tuberculosis.After that, Janina, not yet 8 when she joined the Catholic home, clung desperately to her new family and was baptized to fit in with them and increase her chances of survival under the Nazis After the war, she gave up the chance to live with an uncle in the United States.The bond deepened during the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising of 1944.Her father died in Auschwitz. Janina suffered bouts of depression. Her marriage to a devout Roman Catholic brought a daughter, but also the fresh pain of a husband. Her husband died in 1987. Thanks to her recognition as a rescuer, Maria receives $1,200 per year from the New York-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
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