In 1940 during World War II she lost her father who died during the Sonderaktion Krakau at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and her lieutenant brother Bogden died at the hands of Soviet soldiers on the orders of Joseph Stalin in the Katyn massacre . As the war continued she organized nurses for home care in Warsaw and helped to both feed and resettle refugees . At the conclusion of the war she became the head of a nursing home where she attended to administrative duties and cared for residents while working with nursing students . Chrzanowska also served as the director of the School of Psychiatric Nursing in Kobierzyn until the Communists closed it . After sometime she moved into nursing the poor and the neglected in her own parish area . Chrzanowska attained a scholarship to the United States of America from 1946 until 1947
Sonderaktion Krakau
Sonderaktion Krakau
Hanna Helena Chrzanowska