After the annexation of Lviv to the Soviet Union at the outbreak of World War II, she worked in Radio Lviv, and in 1940 served as dean of the faculty in music theory at the Lviv Conservatory. In 1941, after the Nazi attack on the Lwow, she was relocated to Namangan, Uzbekistan, where she worked as a music teacher. In 1943 she was one of the first to join the Union of Polish Patriots. While in Moscow, she organized radio concerts, wrote reviews of Polish music concerts and published song books and sheet music including "Songbook of Polish Children in the USSR" (1944), a "Polish Soldier Songbook" (1944) and "Songs and Games for the Polish Kindergarten in the USSR" (1945). After the war she remained in Moscow, where she was offered the position of cultural attaché at the Polish embassy.