Summary

They see each other every day, tend to each other's needs, even finish each other's sentences They meet daily and help each other out Maria lives in a tiny room in a nursing home Both lives alone and are not affluent. Janina lives alone in a modest apartment survival under the Nazis 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 an uncle in the United States the girls had to fend for themselvesbecause Maria's father was ill and her mother had taken up arms against the Nazis in the streets of the capital Janina would bury herself in the older girl's skirt as the bombs exploded -She was like a mother Maria was like a mother to the younger Janina. Janina had a battle with leukemia now in remission She contacted the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem bestowed the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" to Maria and to her parents, Henryk and Janina Jetkiewiczto recognize Maria and her parents for saving her during WWI Maria receives $1,200 per year which helps with the medicine and a few extras such as this year's summer holiday to the Warsaw countryside the cash reward can improve Maria’s financial situation