Nelli Turzańska (1917-2012) was involved in scouting from an early age; just before the war, she took up a job at the Ujazdowski Military Hospital in Warsaw. In November 1939, she joined the Union for Armed Struggle, later transformed into the Home Army. During the Warsaw Uprising, she fought in the "Horn" grouping (battalion "Dzik") in the Old Town, from where she made her way to Śródmieście (downtown) through sewers. After the fall of the Uprising, she left Warsaw, and after the end of World War II, she settled in Łódź and took up a job at the School Inspectorate, at the same time beginning her studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Łódź University. From 1951, she was active in the underground organisation Polish Fatherland Front, and in February 1952 she was arrested and imprisoned with an eight-year sentence. She was imprisoned in Cracow in the Montelupich prison, then in Grudziądz and Fordon. Released after 3.5 years, she decided to leave Poland - thanks to her marriage to Canadian citizen Stanisław Krysiak, she managed to do so in May 1958. After her husband's death in 1973, she remarried Władysław Grzymała-Turzański, with whom she founded the Władysław and Nella Turzański Foundation in 1988. She was widowed in 1986. In 1994, her third husband was Zbigniew Szymborski.