On September 27th 1943 Kossak-Szczucka in Warsaw was arrested by a German street patrol.
The Germans, not realising who she was, sent her first to the prison at Pawiak and then to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
In April 1944 when her true identity became known, she was sent back to Warsaw for interrogation and sentenced to death.
End July 1944 she was released through the efforts of the Polish underground and participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
On September 27th 1943 Kossak-Szczucka in Warsaw was arrested by a German street patrol. The Germans, not realising who she was, sent her first to the prison at Pawiak and then to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. In April 1944 when her true identity became known, she was sent back to Warsaw for interrogation and sentenced to death. End July 1944 she was released through the efforts of the Polish underground and participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka