Janina Wójcicka Hoskins

[3] She was born Janina Wanda Ewa Kozłowska in Kupowo, the daughter of Michał and Jadwiga (née Bielska).

[1][2] At the time, a married woman could not continue to be a student in high school, so she studied privately and graduated with her matura in 1933.

She remained in Cracow with her children, clandestinely teaching, studying, and aiding the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

Wójcicka earned her master's degree from Jagiellonian in 1946, and her doctorate in 1947: her dissertation was titled "Western Cultural Influences in Poland During the Reign of Casimir the Great in the Fourteenth Century.

"[1][2] In 1947, communists manipulated the elections and arrested and persecuted members of the PSL, leading many of them to flee the country, including Mikołajczyk.

Hoskins also made trips to Poland to arrange for exchanges and other collaborative efforts with Polish libraries in 1966 (with Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford), 1974, 1976, and 1978.