She was born on 22 June 1966 to father Stanisław Szczuka, a lawyer and a political dissident in the times of PRL, and mother Janina (née Winawer), a doctor from an assimilated Polish-Jewish family.
Born on 22 June 1966, she was the daughter of Stanisław Szczuka, a lawyer and political dissident under the PRL regime, and Janina (née Winawer), a doctor with Jewish-Polish heritage.