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Born to a Polish family, in a mainly Ukrainian town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, her husband Karol, a carpenter, died in Italy 1918, after spending the whole of WWI as a conscript in the Austro Hungarian Army. With no social security, she returned with her 2 children to live with her parents. Sadly, both died within days of each other through a typhoid epidemic during Easter of 1922. In 1939 she was deported to Siberia, later spending time in displaced persons camps in Persia and eastern Africa, arriving in WA with her only daughter Bronislawa. Her only son Kazimierz died in November 1940 in a Russian camp in Komi Sangovodok.

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