When Danuta Maria Piekosinska was born in Lwow (now Lviv in Ukraine) in 1911, Poland was partitioned between Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The south of Poland was under Austrian rule and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the beginning of WWI, the family moved to Gorlice, southeast Poland, but the main battle was to pass through here, so they were evacuated to Freidental (now Freistadt), near the borders of Austria and Czechoslovakia. After the war, the family went to live in Brzesko, near Krakow.

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