Sabina Żdżarska "Anna" was born on 25 November 1911 in Lubraniec near Włocławek. In 1919, her father Jan Woźnicki, a teacher and an activist of the Polish Peasants' Party "Wyzwolenie", was elected to the Legislative Parliament in the first parliamentary elections in independent Poland. After Jan Woźnicki was appointed a Deputy Speaker, the family moved to Warsaw where Sabina graduated from the Maria Konopnicka State Middle School for Girls. She began studies in mathematics at the Warsaw University, but had to discontinue her education due to a heart disease. She later started learning at the State Institute of Handicraft and Drawing, where teachers of that subject were educated. In 1938, she married Wacław Żdżarski, and in the same year took up work at the Ministry of Justice in the penitentiary section headed by Tadeusz Żenczykowski, who would later become the head of Department VI of the Home Army Headquarters' Information and Propaganda Bureau (BIP KG AK). Beginning in 1941, she worked for the underground in the Photographic Section of the BIP KG AK. Between 1943 and 1944, she and her husband conducted underground courses for photo reporters. During the Rising, she continued her photo reporter work in Mokotów, where she was seriously wounded in an explosion of an incendiary bomb on 29 August. In the last days of September, she and her husband Wacław Żdżarski made it to Wilanów, from where they reached Milanówek. After the war, she was a housewife and was actively involved in various school organisations in Milanówek. Sabina Żdżarska died on 26 January 2003 in Warsaw.

During the Rising, Sabina Żdżarska took photographs in Mokotów with her own Leica photo camera on negatives she had gathered before the fight began. She set up a photo lab in her parents' flat at 30 Pilicka Street. Both the lab and the photo collection stored there were perished in a German attack on that part of the city. Only few fragments of the negatives could be recovered. The surviving photos show insurgents in the St. Elisabeth Sisters Hospital at Goszczyńskiego Street, a group of dispatch runners right after exiting the sewers in Malczewskiego Street, and "Małgorzatka the Medic" – Janina Załęska, the heroine of the insurgent song written by Mirosław Jezierski and Jan Markowski.