Beata Obertyńska

Beata Obertyńska, (pen name "Marta Rudzka"), born July 18, 1898, near Skole (in present-day Western Ukraine), died May 21, 1980 in London was a Polish writer and poet.

Beata was one of the daughters of the 'Young Poland' poet Maryla Wolska and granddaughter of the sculptor Wanda Monne (one-time fiancée of painter, Artur Grottger). Her father was an engineer and industrialist in the oil business, Wacław Wolski. She was the wife of landowner, Józef Obertyński.

She spent her childhood and adolescence with her siblings in the family villa in Lwów where they were home-tutored. She later passed her high school exams. In her youth she was associated with the Skamander movement.

Her first poems were published in 1924 in "Słowo Polskie". She studied in the National Institute of Theatre Arts. Between 1933 and 1937 she appeared on stage in several Lwów theatres.

During the Soviet occupation of Lwów, in July 1940, she was arrested by the NKVD. She was imprisoned in the famous Brygidki prison and was moved to prisons in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Starobielsk and finally to the Vorkuta concentration camp. In 1942, following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, she was released and joined Anders'army. She served through all of its campaigns in Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Italy.

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