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Board from the novella about Ludwika Okrent (married name: Wujec). Ludka was born in 1941 in Lwów (today Lviv, Ukraine). Her family survived the later phase of the war in the interior of the Soviet Union, where they had fled after the outbreak of the German-Soviet conflict; it is estimated that, out of about 250,000 Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, as many as two-thirds were saved precisely in the East. After the war, the Okrents settled in the rebuilt Warsaw. Ludwika attended the school of the Children’s Friends Society, attended the club of the Social and Cultural Jewish Society in Poland [Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce, TSKŻ), taking part in holiday camps and other events organised by the TSKŻ. The main problem presented in the story is the Polish Jews' dilemma whether to stay in the People’s Republic of Poland or emigrate (to Israel, Western Europe, the United States, or South America). Ludwika convinced her relatives to stay. Neither did she leave Poland in March 1968, which is shown on the board in the POLIN collection.