Pediatrician, immunologist, serologist.
She studied medicine in Montpellier and Berlin. During World War I, she served as a military physician in the Serbian army; after its end, she served as head of the Pediatric Clinic at the University of Warsaw in Warsaw. After the outbreak of World War II, she and her husband, Ludwik Hirszefeld, lived on the so-called Aryan side (thanks to the intercession of a German physician, Dr. Kochmann). From February 1941, due to the decrees of Governor-General Hans Frank, the couple were forced to relocate to the Warsaw Ghetto, where Hanna Hirszefeld served as head of the infant ward at the Berson and Bauman Hospital branch on Leszno Street. There, despite the difficult situation, she struggled to combat various illnesses: tuberculosis, typhus, and starvation. In the summer of 1942, she, along with her husband and other family members, reached the so-called Aryan side. Their daughter Maria died in February 1943. The Hirszfelds hid in places including Stara Miłosna, Złota Street, and the village of Lipka.
After the war, Hanna Hirszfeldowa and her husband moved to Wrocław, where she began working at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Wrocław. From 1954, Professor Hirszfeldowa served as head of the Department of Diagnostics at the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Wrocław. Together with her husband, she participated in research on blood groups. She died on February 20, 1964, in Wrocław.
