Career
She also wrote novels. During World World War II she joined the Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa). Arrested by the Germans, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died.
After the war, Polish Inspection of Labor created an award named after her.
Coming from a long family line of women patriots, Halina Krahelska was a sister of Krystyna Krahelska, poet and resistance member who died in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. She was also a cousin of Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, a leading figure in the Warsaw"s underground resistance movement who was a wife of a former ambassador to Washington and who — at the age of twenty — took part in an assassination attempt on the Russian governor-general of Warsaw.