Rodziewiczówna came from a land-owning nobility family. She was the daughter of Henryk Rodziewicz, coat of arms Łuk and Amelia née Kurzeniecki. Her parents were sentenced to confiscation of their family estate Pieniaha in Vawkavysk and to deportation to Siberia for help given to the January uprising insurgents (storing weapons). Amelia, who was pregnant with Maria at that time, was allowed to give birth and a few months later was deported in a carriage that she paid for. During her parents' stay in exile, the Rodziewicz children were put in the care of various relatives. Initially, Maria's grandparents took care of the Kurzeniecki family in the Zamosze estate near Janów, and after their death a friend and distant relative of her mother, Maria Skirmuntt, took care of her in Korzeniów in the Pinsk region.