[2][3][4] Ferenc was born in Ruszów-Kolonia[5] in the administrative district of Gmina Łabunie, within Zamość County[6] in Lublin Voivodeship in Poland on 27 April 1934.

[9] During World War II, as a 9-year-old child, she survived the massacre of the village of Sochy[10] by Nazi Germany on 1 June 1943 during German occupation of Poland.

[30] In 2016, Ferenc with her husband Zbigniew Jankowski was awarded the silver "Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis".

[31][32] Dramatic events in the life of Ferenc, when she survived as a 9-year-old child, the Sochy massacre by the German occupiers on 1 June 1943, in which she lost both parents[33] – were described in a book titled Mała Zagłada ("A Little Annihilation") written by her daughter, poet Anna Janko.

[37][38] The film reminds of the tragic fate of Ferenc and the inhabitants of the village of Sochy in the Zamość region, victims of the massacre.