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Giving Opportunities Grazyna Chrostowska was born on October 21,
1921, in Lublin, Poland. Following the German occupation, she
distributed the illegal newsletter "Poland Lives." She was
arrested for her underground activities on May 8, 1941, and
transferred to Ravensbrück on September 12 of that year, On
April 18, 1942, she and eleven other young Polish women were
shot by a Nazi firing squad. During her time in Ravensbrück she
wrote poems, some of which were aired on the London BBC with
other news about the camp in 1943. Chrostowska's poetry has been
translated and is available online*