Born 9 July 1925 in
Warsaw, Poland, she was the only child of Marian Krasnodębski, an
economist and senior official at the Mutual Insurance Institution, and Maria ( Badowska), a graduate of the
Academy of Fine Arts. Her
maternal family had strong
artistic traditions. Her grandfather, Adam Badowski, was a renowned
painter and professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts and her grandmother Maria ( Wąsowska) Badowska (later Rydygier), was a distinguished
pianist and
professor too at the Higher School of Music in
Warsaw. During her early childhood, she lived in Marcelin, a manor located in the
Sielce district of Warsaw. The family later moved to
Hrubieszów and then to
Mława in the early 1930s. She completed her first year of secondary school in
Mława before the outbreak of
World War II. In the summer of 1939, they moved in with a relative on Wspólna Street. After her father's return from the
eastern front, the family resettled in
Mława. == Career ==