Sophie Moss

Sophie Moss (born Zofia Roza Maria Jadwiga Elzbieta Katarzyna Aniela Tarnowska; 16 March 1917 – 22 November 2009), was a Polish noblewoman and World War II organiser. At the request of General Władysław Sikorski, Poland's wartime leader, she founded the Cairo branch of the Polish Red Cross. Early life Moss was born during the First World War, near Tarnobrzeg, a town in southeastern Poland that her Tarnowski family founded in 1593. She was the daughter of Hieronim, a politician and a writer. Her grandfather was Count Stanislaw Tarnowski (1837–1917), who was a professor and rector at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His home, also known as the Szlak, had been the resting place of deceased Polish kings on the night before the kings' burial at Wawel. Moss was also a possible direct descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia and her family had held some of the highest offices in Poland.