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Vol. 123 (2015): Our Past

Profiles, memories

The service of Sister Zofia Izabella Łuszczkiewicz as a nurse

  • Helena Matoga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2015.123.278-288  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2015-06-30

Abstract

Zofia Izabella Łuszczkiewicz was one of the most outstanding nurses during the interwar period. A highly qualified Person of Mercy. A valued pedagogue, work organizer and colleague. In today’s nursing we call such people “leaders of the profession”. Destroyed by the criminal system of Polish People's Republic. Zofia Izabella Łuszczkiewicz was born in 1898 in Kraków. She received a thorough education, learning foreign languages, singing and playing the piano. After graduating from the Ursuline Sisters' high school in Krakow, in 1917 she began studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, where she graduated in 1922, specializing in natural sciences, chemistry and pedagogy. During the war, around 1919/1920, she took part in a sanitary course organized by Maria Epstein, where she learned how to care for the wounded. After obtaining nursing qualifications, she worked in a military hospital in Krakow. In 1923, she joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Krakow. After completing her postulancy and studies in Paris, she was sent to work at the General Hospital in Lviv, where she served as the head of the hospital's Nursing School. The school at the General Hospital in Lviv, operating since 1895, was a training facility for nurses where nuns and laypeople could obtain nursing education. Łuszczkiewicz became its director in 1926, introducing modern teaching standards modeled on Parisian schools. During international congresses in Vienna, Paris and London in 1937–1938, Łuszczkiewicz represented Polish nurses. In 1937, she was also elected to the board of the Polish Nurses Association, serving as director of the State Nursing School in Lviv. After the Soviet troops entered Lviv in 1939, she moved to Krakow, where she started working for the local population and in the structures of the Home Army. After the war, she worked as a nurse in Rzeszów, but was arrested in 1948 for anti-state activities. Sentenced to death, she was eventually rehabilitated after her death in 1993.

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