During the German occupation she worked as a feldsher and midwife at the Warsaw health centre in Grochowska Street. It was also there that organised financial support to the Jews imprisoned inside the ghetto. In 1942 Bussold was entrusted with taking care of a Jewish girl smuggled out of the ghetto. Stanislawa Bussold became her foster mother. The rescued girl was Elżbieta Bussold and her married name was Ficowska; she was a clerk, social activist and educator as well as an author of books for children and young people.