[1] But the rise in violence towards the end of World War II saw her relocated to seek refuge in Czechoslovakia where a Russian soldier killed her in mid-1945 when she refused his advances.

[2][4][1] Upon the entrance of the Soviet armed forces into the town on 22 March 1945, she listened to her superior and left to take refuge with her peer, Fides Gemeinhardt, in a parish schoolhouse in Sobotín in the Czechoslovakia after a brief visit to Lesiny Wielkie.

That May saw Soviet troops enter the town and, on the order of the parish priest, both sisters joined other refugees to hide in farm buildings to avoid the anti-religious soldiers.

Running to the first floor, he cornered her and dragged her out amongst the others that had been captured, and started to molest her, however, she knelt down and held her rosary and cross and refused to indulge his requests.

[1] Pope Francis signed a decree on 19 June 2021 that determined that the ten slain nuns had been killed in odium fidei ("in hatred of the faith").