Jadwiga Beatryksa Maria Szeptycka, known as Inka to her friends, was born in 1883 as Jadzia Szembekówna, on the family estate of Siemianice in the Kępiński poviat.

The results of the research were published in the Report on archaeological searches carried out in recent years in Siemianice (Kępiński poviat) ("Roczniki PTPN" 1902).

This paper, together with her sister's publication Further Contributions to the Ethnography of Greater Poland (MAAE 12, 1912), are together considered to be a significant collection of materials on the folk culture of this region.

[3]With the outbreak of World War II, Inka and her husband established an emergency hospital in their manor house for local refugees and wounded soldiers.

[3] In 1939, with Polish borders breached by German and Soviet troops, she and her husband carefully moved their eight children to safety, but they remained on the estate.

On 27 September, officers of the Soviet Union's NKVD arrived at their home and led Leon away to be shot, but Inka requested to join him.