"Everyone of us wants to be happy, and he or she is happy, when they do something for another human and for the community they live in. This is real happiness."
Zofia Romaszewska born in 1940 in Warsaw, was a member of the anti-communist opposition in Poland and human rights activist, devoted to helping other people treated unjustly by the state institutions, or whose rights were violated.
Together with her husband Zbigniew Romaszewski she helped the persecuted workers and their families after the protests in Radom and Ursus in 1976. Later they managed the Intervention Office of the KOR Committee for Social Self-Defence, which helped the workers repressed by militia, prosecutor's offices and courts of the communist Poland. She was also a speaker of the Radio “Solidarność”, the underground radio of the Solidarity Movement. After the democratic transition she was director of the Intervention Office in the Polish Senate, responsible for the citizens’ complaints. Since 2015 she has been an advisor to the Polish President Andrzej Duda.
