He was the son of Paweł, a non-commissioned officer conscripted into the Prussian army who, after leaving the forces, became a janitor at the boys' gymnasium in Ostrowo.

He completed primary school at home, then studied at the gymnasium where his father worked in Ostrowo; he passed there his matriculation exam in 1871.

Władysław took part in the Franco-Prussian War[1] and after a short stint in a construction business, he turned to studying medicine between April 1872 and August 1876 at the Berlin university.

After completion of his doctorate in 1877, he practiced for eight years in Krajenka (then Krojanke), 85 kilometres (53 mi) west of Bydgoszcz.

In 1885, he moved permanently to Bydgoszcz, then Bromberg, and opened there a medical practice at 9 Wool Market Square (Polish: 3 Wełniany Rynek, German: 3 Wollmarkt).

[2] On 22 April 1889, he passed the district physician state examination in Berlin, giving him the right of making a professional career in the Prussian administration.

On 8 April 1895, Anna and Władysław Piórek purchased a tenement built in 1882 at then 8 Wilhelmstraße (present-day 22 Focha Street).

For several years he was the president of the Social and Merchant Circle, which brought together representatives of the Bydgoszcz intelligentsia and bourgeoisie.

During the trip back, Franciszek died on a plantation in Madagascar: his corpse was buried in a cemetery in Nîmes, France.

After the war, despite strenuous efforts, Wanda could not get the Focha Street house back; her mother Anna passed away in 1945.

Wanda Górska lived in rough conditions in a temporary apartment at 42 Grunwaldzka Street until her death on 14 April 1980.

Zofia's younger sister Jadwiga wed in the same year (1936) Janusz Pasturczak (1899–1976), a military captain from Włocławek.

[12] Janusz was captured by the Germans early in the war and spent the entire time in camps (Magdeburg, Lübeck and Tangerhutte).

On March 18, 1938, a portrait of Władysław Piórek was ceremonially hung in the conference room of the City Council.