Background
Zofia Grabska was born to Feliks and Stanisława Grabski at the family possession in the village of BoróWest
Zofia Grabska was born to Feliks and Stanisława Grabski at the family possession in the village of BoróWest
Until the age of ten she attended school in her village, later moving to Warsaw. She graduated from a university there, passed the state exam for the mathematics teacher.
Her brothers were Stanisław Grabski, politician and economist. And Władysław Grabski, Prime Minister of Poland. Grabska was an activist of the Polish Socialist Party, for that she was arrested by Russian authorities and in 1894 sent to Permanent and Yekaterinoslav.
In 1896 she returned to Warsaw, and since 1900 cooperated with Liga Narodowa (National League), political organization of the right-wing National Democracy camp.
From 1905 to 1920 she resided in Cieszyn Silesia, where she was active together with husband Józef Kiedroń in Polskie Zjednoczenie Narodowe (Polish National Unity) political organization of right-wing character. Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa also edited the Dziennik Cieszyński (Cieszyn Daily) newspaper.
Her husband died in December 1900. Her son from the first marriage, Doctor Stanisław Kirkor, was a civil servant in the Ministry of Treasury.
In 1920, Cieszyn Silesia was divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia by the decision of Spa Conference, in which Kiedroń was present as a Polish delegate.
Since May 1925 she lived in Siemianowice Śląskie. During the Warsaw Uprising she stayed in Warsaw, in 1945 moved to her birthplace of BoróWest Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa died on 15 June 1952 in Warsaw and is buried in the Grabski family grave at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.
From 1986 to 1989 her memoirs and notes were published in three volumes as Memoirs.
They serve as the important source of knowledge about the daily life and political life of Congress Poland, Cieszyn Silesia and the Second Polish Republic. They also offer an insight to the life of Grabski family and the highest-ranked politicians of interwar period.
In 1896 she married socialist activist Dymitr Kirkor.
In 1918 she became a member of the Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskego (National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn), a Polish self-government council working to join Cieszyn Silesia to Poland.