Ludwika Wujec

Wujec was a member of the pro-democracy dissident movement against the Polish People's Republic during the country's communist era.

Wujec spent the first years of her life living in the Soviet Union with her mother as a refugee near Stalingrad and the Ural Mountains region.

[1] She graduated from Juliusza Słowackiego High School in Warsaw received her degree from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the University of Łódź.

[1] She initially joined the ruling communist Polish United Workers' Party and became a math and physics teacher during the 1950s and 1960s.

[1] Wujec became an assistant to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a prominent Solidarity leader and first post-communist prime minister, during the late 1980s, including during the Polish Round Table Agreement negotiations in 1989.

[6] Other Polish female activists honored with Wujec in the mural include Anna Walentynowicz and Henryka Krzywonos.