In 1939, Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, professor and wealthy landowner, joined the Polish underground, was arrested, sentenced to death, and was held in Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Born in Vienna in 1898, Karolina Lanckoronska was an aristocrat and art historian who taught at the University of Lwow. When the Soviets came to occupy the city, Lanckoronska became active in the Polish resistance.
... Lanckorońska , Those Who Trespass Against Us , 74-5 . 4. R. Smorczewski , IWM 128787 03/41/1 . 5. For example , both Erickson and Bellamy refer to this first period as the ' Battle of the Frontiers ' but do not mention the Poles at all ...
... Lanckorońska who established the precedent for providing overt and clandestine aid to prison- ers through the RGO that Janina was to follow in Lublin. After Galicia became a General Government district in 1941, Count- ess Lanckorońska ...