Opposed to Communism, she was persecuted by the Polish government of the time; among other things, she lost her position as editor of the periodical Ziemia i Morze and was taken to court over an article published therein.
Up until 1963 she delivered lectures on various subjects including literary history, earning her a Gold Award from the Towarzystwo Wiedzy Powszechnej (Society for Universal Knowledge) in 1960.
During the political "thaw" known as Polish October, Boniecka was chosen to be the first editor of the socio-literary weekly Ziemia i Morze (Land and Sea) in the city of Szczecin.
[1] A few weeks after losing her job, Boniecka was taken to court over an article she published in Ziemia i Morze which exposed the appalling conditions existing in the local education system.
Her last book, Ucieczka za Druty[3] (Escape across the [barbed] wire), a work of creative non-fiction, was written in Sydney, and published in London in 1975.