[Uncommon woman - professor Irena Semadeni-Konopacka (1901-1984)]

Irena Konopacka was born 5th May 1901 in Holuzja-Woln. Before the interception of power by Bolsheviks she frequented the gymnasium for Roman-Catholic maids in Moscow. In 1919 she repatriated from Russia to Poland. After the graduation she studied at the State Institute of Dentistry, finishing her studies in 1925. During many years she worked in the Warsaw department of Stomatological Surgery directed by prof. Alfred Meissner, in the dispensary of the Polish Bank and in the Obstetrical and Gynecological Department of the 1939 war against the Germans. During the occupation she served in the ranks of the Polish underground army. In the time of Warsaw uprising she worked in the czerniakow hospital. After the war Irena Semadeni-Konopacka worked first in Gdansk, then in Szczecin as the director of stomatological surgery.