[2] Teresa Torańska was born on January 1, 1944, in Wołkowysk (since 1945 in Belarus), which was then part of the Second Polish Republic occupied by the Soviet Union.

In the 1990s, Torańska hosted two television programs for Telewizja Polska (TVP): socio-political "Teraz Wy” (Now You) and historical "Powtórka z PRL-u” (Rehash from the PRL).

Torańska wrote the screenplay for a documentary film Dworzec gdański (Gdańsk Main Station) directed by Maria Zmarz-Kozanowicz.

[1] Before her death in 2013, she was a contributor to Poland's second-largest daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, conducting interviews with the leading Polish political figures.

Torańska was perhaps best known for her award winning book Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets (Oni), published in the United States by HarperCollins.