Career
She was a performer of the Piwnica pod Baranami. Her fictional adventures were described in the comics called Szaszkiewiczowa, czyli Ksylolit w jej życiu, which was being published in Przekrój since 1958. In 1969–2007 she lived in Norway.
In 2011, she published her memoir titled Podwójne życie Szaszkiewiczowej (The Double Life of Szaszkiewiczowa).
Since 2013 she ran a blog Moje pierwsze 100 lat (My First 100 Years). She received the order from Lesser Poland voivode Jerzy Miller during a ceremony at her apartment in Cracow.
Szaszkiewiczowa was the sister of Maria Jarochowska, a writer and communist activist, and Konstanty Jarochowski, a photographer.