[1] Jozéfa was born on March 10, 1860, into the family of Tomasz Batsch, a farmer, and Barbara née Przybyłków.

After her father's death at the age of eighteen, she started working in the ore mine in Pasieki (now Bibiela).

She participated in the plebiscite in Upper Silesia and in the Third Silesian Uprising, nding her apartment as a weapons warehouse and underground premises.

[4] She ran in the 1928 elections on behalf of the National Christian Labor Union, but she took over the mandate only in 1929 after the death of Józef Londzin.

[5][6] After the start of World War II, she evacuated to the east, but on September 29, 1939, she returned to Żyglin.