She was a keen reader being remembered for caring for a cow with a book in her hand. She met her future husband, Jan Kupiec, in Polish organisations in her youth. During the occupation by Nazi Germany she had to manually work hard in a forest. This was an unwelcome change from the office work she did briefly in the Třinec Iron and Steel Works before the war cost her that job. After the war in 1945 she married Jan Kupiec. Zaolzie became again a part of Czechoslovakia. After the 1948 communist coup she and her husband were not trusted citizens. Eventually however her husband became the headmaster of a Polish elementary school.