She was involved in the Polish underground resistance movement during World War II, a soldier of the Home Army, a member of the Gray Ranks, a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, and chairperson of the Social Committee for the Cemetery of Warsaw Insurgents.

As a member of the Gray Ranks she took part in minor sabotage and in Operation N, during which she delivered letters to informers warning them that if they did not stop their activities they would be sentenced to death.

[5] She took part in the Warsaw Uprising as a gunner and a liaison officer in the Covering Detachment of the Military Publishing Works (WZW) - of the Bureau of Information and Propaganda - of the Home Army Headquarters.

[14] In 2018, she supported the protest of disabled people in the Sejm; she tried to meet with the participants, but was not allowed into the parliament building.

[18] On 10 October 2021, she took part and spoke during a protest at the Castle Square in Warsaw after the Constitutional Tribunal's ruling on the superiority of the Constitution of Poland over European Union law[19] She is the heroine of the documentary film directed by Marianna Bukowski titled Portrait of a Soldier[12] and the book Błyskawica.