Anna Dąmbska, as a young girl, took part in the underground activity during the war. In Warsaw, from 1941, she served as a liaison officer in the Catholic organization “Front of the Rebirth of Poland”; in addition, she carried false documents for the Jews who were hiding. In 1943, she began to serve as a nurse and a liaison officer in the partisan units subordinate to the Home Army, fighting with the Germans in the territories of eastern Poland. In 1944, after the Red Army occupied this area, it came to the Soviet labor camps in Kaluga and in Ostashkov. There, in inhumane conditions, without surrendering to despair and despair, she prayed that God would let her continue to serve her homeland.
She returned to Poland. She graduated from high school, started on secret sets, and Academy of Fine Arts. She did not start a family. She had a mother to support. She worked as a fashion designer, illustrator and journalist. She valued the period when she wrote articles about sacred and secular art, but even then she did not have the sense of serving the homeland, or at least not the service she would like.
In her adulthood, she discovered the charism of hearing God's voice. She began to write the Lord's words (the first in 1967, heard during the prayer after Holy Communion). The Lord answered her thoughts and asked her questions himself, so she also wrote down her words. “Conversations with the Lord” took on a more systematic character since 1982. Anna initially wrote them down alone, but due to the progressive disease of the joints more and more often she used the help of other people. With time, they became participants in these conversations. A few people participated in the prayer meetings.
Since 1985, the theological correctness of the texts of “conversations with the Lord”, with the permission of his superiors, was carried out by the Jesuit priest, Fr. prof. Jan Sieg, who also participated in some of the meetings. After a long time, Anna discovered that writing down the Lord's words took on the character of service, and that this gift the Lord responded to her prayers during the war.
Part of the “conversations” has been published. When Anna asked the Lord for words addressed to others, her first book entitled “Let Love Embrace You” was published, (Michalineum 1988). It was published under her name. The nickname “Anna” began to be used later. In the nineties, her other books were published, including “Witnesses of the Divine Mercy” (WAM 1995), being the choice of fragments of her personal notes, not intended for publication, which she agreed to share when she was convinced that they could help others open themselves to God and his love more fully. The book “God invites you to friendship” published by Michalineum in 2012 is a separate work, created as a continuation of “Let Love Embrace You”.
Known to most readers only from the pseudonym “Anna” - Anna Dąmbska died on September 15, 2007. Appointed at the end of her life as an officer, she was buried with military honors.
(This text is an extended version of information about the author given in the book: “God invites you to friendship”, Michalineum 2012)