Zofia Lukasiewicz
Born on 13 December 1901 in Krasnosiółka (Poland). Zofia taught biology and chemistry in Warsaw before joining her brother Julian, the Polish ambassador to France, in 1938. She taught at the first Cyprian Norwid Polish high school in Paris, and then at Villard-de-Lans from 1940 to 1945. She was also one of the supervisors at the girls' boarding facility. She was in Villard-de-Lans during the fighting in the Vercors and took part in the difficult task of going to Vassieux to identify the bodies of the students who had been massacred. Nicknamed "Amoeba", she was much appreciated by students and teachers alike, and was considered to be "the heart of Villard". She kept up a regular correspondence with her former students (there are 300 letters in our archives!), and remained in constant touch with the Villardians. In the summer of 1946, she returned to Poland and continued her work as a teacher. Zofia died in 1988.
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