 Wartime found her working as a courier in the underground Polish Armia Krajowa in the east of Poland.Under her cover name 'Marta', she entered and won a talent contest in Vilnius in 1940, after which she sang in the city at the popular nightclub Sztralla Artystów, as well as engagements in 1940-1941 with the orchestra of Ludwik Sempolinski and entertainer Janusz Minkiewicz's satirical cabaret "Ksantyp".After the war, she settled in Lódź and began a long collaboration with the Lopatowski Brothers Orchestra that resulted in a string of recordings including the hits "Czy pamiętasz tę noc w Zakopanem?"