Sophie Moss

Sophie Moss (born Zofia Roza Maria Jadwiga Elzbieta Katarzyna Aniela Tarnowska; 16 March 1917 – 22 November 2009) was a Polish noblewoman and World War II organiser.

At the request of Władysław Sikorski, Poland's wartime leader, she founded the Cairo branch of the Polish Red Cross.

Moss was also a possible direct descendant of Catherine the Great[citation needed] and her family held some of the highest offices in Poland.

[2] Tarnowska and her companions, including her brother Stanislaw, after spending two weeks travelling Poland by car, finally resigned themselves to cross the border into Romania, reaching Bucharest as the Soviet invasion progressed from the east.

[citation needed] Separated from her husband, Tarnowska left Palestine and travelled to Cairo, where she and her sister-in-law were welcomed by Prince Youssef Kamal ed-Dine (a visitor to Poland before the War).

[2] When Tarnowska left her father's home in 1939, he gave her the personal seventeenth-century jack ("proporzec"), of King Karl Gustav of Sweden, a trophy won at his army's defeat on the Tarnowski estate during the Deluge.

The government highlighted the cultural event and granted the visiting party visas, but Tarnowska declined the offers of expenses-paid travel and hospitality.

After the fall of the Polish People's Republic, Tarnowska's nephew was able to buy back Rudnik, dilapidated and then gradually restored.