Ludwika Wujec

Ludwika Wujec (2 April 1941 – 26 May 2024) was a Polish physicist, teacher, politician, and political activist. Wujec was a member of the pro-democracy dissident movement against the Polish People's Republic during the country's communist era.

Biography Wujec was born on 2 April 1941, to Jewish parents Oskar and Regina (Burgierman) Okrent, in Soviet-annexed Lviv, in present-day Ukraine.

Awards and decorations Wujec as depicted in the Kobiety Wolności mural at the Gdańsk Strzyża railway station. President Lech Kaczyński awarded her the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2006. In 2015, President Bronisław Komorowski further awarded Wujec the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity. Wujec and her husband, Henryk Wujec, were jointly awarded the in 2016.

In 2019, Wujec's image was included on the new "Women of Freedom" (Kobiety Wolności) mural at the Gdańsk Strzyża railway station in Gdańsk, which honors women involved with the anti-Communist dissident movement. Other Polish female activists honored with Wujec in the mural include Anna Walentynowicz and Henryka Krzywonos.