Zofia was arrested in Radom in 1941 as a 17-teenage girl and kept in prison in Kielce, then in Pinczow. From the Spring of 1942 till 1944, she was a prisoner in Ravensbrück KL. In 1944, she was transported to a factory commando in Neu-Rohlau near Karlsbad. Zofia worked there in a porcelain factory until the liberation. After the war, she graduated from the Sorbonne in French Philology and lived in Paris. Zofia started writing poems in prison. After the war, émigré magazines and domestic newspapers published her poems. In 1958, she penned a novel titled “Baska i Barbara,” which dealt with the problem of denationalizing children in exile. You may read her Ravensbrück poems translated by Jaroslaw J. Gajewski.