Różecka was born in 1922 in Stryj, then in Poland. Her father, a Polish Army officer, was killed by Soviet forces in Starobelsk in 1940.
She joined the underground resistance against Nazi Germany in 1942.
During the German occupation, Różecka, her mother Leonia and her sister Wanda hid Jews in a villa in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district.
They also sheltered a member of the elite Polish special-operations unit known as the Silent Unseen and concealed weapons belonging to the resistance.
When the Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944, Różecka served as an orderly for the Polish resistance.
"I decided I wouldn’t be a courier, as there were so many girls who could do that,” she said in an interview with the Warsaw Rising Museum. “Nor was I destined for shooting, as that’s not what I studied medicine for. So I joined the hospital.”
After the collapse of the uprising, she left Warsaw with the civilian population.
In 1988, Różecka, her mother and sister were awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal by Israel’s Yad Vashem for risking their lives to save Jews during the German occupation of Poland.
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Source: PAP, dzieje.pl