She was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, a courageous woman who was responsible for saving the lives of 2500 children in the brutality of Hitler's regime.

During the early 1940's was a Catholic social worker who had gone into the Warsaw ghetto to rescue Jewish kids who were destined either to starve there, or die in death camps. She would sneak the kids past Nazi guards, sometimes hiding them in body bags, or would provide them with false documents - inevitably getting them to Polish families for adoption, or hiding them in convents or orphanages. She also made a list of the children's real names, put them in a jar and buried them, so that some day she could dig them up and find the kids to tell them their true names.