Alina Herszlik, a naturalist, was born on 26 March 1899, the daughter of industrialist Samuel (Zainwel) Herszlik and Bronisława (Brandli) née Hirszberg, and sister of Felicja Wanda Herszlikówna, an art historian and sculptor. In the years 1907–1916, she attended the Eliza Orzeszkowa Society Girls' School in Łódź. From 1918 to 1923, she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, in Kraków. In the academic year 1922-23, she conducted research in a botanical laboratory headed by Prof. Kazimierz Rouppert. In 1925, her article “Les vacuoles à tanoides de certaines variétés du haricot (Phaseolus Vulgaris)”was published in the Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres (Extrait du) classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles, série B: Sciences Naturelles. In the same year, she was admitted to doctoral examinations on the basis of her thesis entitled Tannic water in certain varieties of beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris), evaluated by Professors Rouppert and Władysław Szafer. After returning to Łódź, she got involved in the Stanisław Staszic Natural History Society, where she served as a board member and secretary until April 1939. She was a member of the editorial board of Illustrated Nature Magazine. As well, she was active in organising exhibitions and lectures at the Natural History Museum in Łódź. Before 1939, she lived at Andrzeja 7.

During the war, she was  in the Łódź Ghetto. Beginning in July 1941, she was employed by the School Department (vide) at the Gymnasium. Herszlik, her mother and sister were registered at 11/6 Urzędnicza, and beginning in January 1942 at Limanowskiego 28/30a. Her fate is unknown.