Gestapo arrested Zofia Pienkiewicz Malanowska in Warsaw in connection with underground work. After imprisonment in Pawiak prison, Nazi authorities sent her to Ravensbrück in 1944. After WWII, she was a director of Polish Radio in the Wrocław radio station.
The Night At Serbia At night, on a narrow patch of sky, Shine a few distant, chilly stars. Please don't say anything to me. I know it is not necessary, "A few cities were conquered, And a hundred villages." We lie gazing in the dark, Listening to the breath of sleepy heads. Please don't say there is somebody distraught, I know. I am also missing words. The city sleeps in the distance. Over the ruins, The tower's reflector glows eerily. Do not say that despair Comes down with tears, Either you or I, We don't know it yet. Hear keys and footsteps sound Approaching, Stopped? No, they passed by. Today, there are ten convictions but, Don't say, "Not for us." Couse our time will come. When the pale dawn peeks behind bars, We will both, without dreams, sleep hard. A volley will wake us up, and then? Rollcall, don't speak! no need, I know it without words. Pawiak prison, July 1941 Serbia - women's part of the Pawiak prison, located in 1835–1944 at Dzielna 24/26 in Warsaw. In 1939–1944, the building of Serbia and the entire Pawiak were taken over by the Gestapo. It was intended for 250 places, but during the German occupation, the number of women imprisoned reached 800. see: Anna Czuperska-Śliwicka: Cztery lata ostrego dyżuru. Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1965, s. 15. On August 21, 1944, the Germans blew up the Pawiak prison complex, including the Serbia building. see: Leon Wanat: Za murami Pawiaka. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1972, s. 605.