During World War II she lived in Warsaw with her sister Maria and nephew Witold.

She was a conservator at the Museum of Warmia and Mazury; she secured and catalogued various antiques and did restoration works.

She was the author of several works on folk art and regional history, and she published articles in such periodicals as „Słowie na Warmii”, „Warmia i Mazury”, „Przegląd Zachodni” and „Polska Sztuka Ludowa”.

[1] In 1972 she published her memoir titled Pionierzy i zabytki (Pioneers and Monuments)[3] that focused mostly on her work in the museum.

For her services in cultural heritage protection in the region she was awarded with a Gold Medal „For Antiques' Guardians”.