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times, democratic opposition, martial law and life in free Poland,
but her biography should be supplemented at least a little so that
the reader is aware of the later fate of the girl from Nawrot Street.

Right after her return from the camps, on May 24th, 1945, she
began education in the fourth grade of school No. 160 at 24 An-
drzeja Struga Street. She studied there until 1947, with a three-
month break for treatment in an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium in
Lagiewniki. She continued her education at the Jaroslaw
Dabrowski School of the Workers' Society of Friends of Children
(RTPD). (later TPD) at 26 Jaracza Street. In 1952 she obtained her
high school diploma and after passing the entrance exams, Zofia
Lubinska was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical
Academy in Lodz (now the Medical University of Lodz). “Why
medicine? It is difficult for me to answer this question. From the
beginning, I was thinking either about psychology or about medi-
cine. I could not see myself in any other profession" - she con-
fessed in an interview for "Znak".
“A great many people who survived the Holocaust decided to
study medicine. I think this was a natural choice. It presented the
opportunity to save lives and sacrifice oneself for others. At that
time, I did not think whether it would be easy or hard, if this job
would be another burden for me. I just felt like I could prove my-
self in it” - she explains. She is a pediatrician by specialization and
throughout her professional career she dealt with the treatment
and care of newborns.

Already during her studies between 1956-1958, Zofia was a
volunteer at the First Clinic of Pediatrics at the Medical Academy
in Lodz, headed by prof. Kazimierz Sroczynski, at the infant wards
of the Janusz Korczak Hospital in Lodz at 15 Armii Czerwonej St.
(currently 71 Jozefa Pilsudskiego Ave.) She preferred to work with
children in order to avoid contact with adults - as she explained
years later. "Back then, I was very sensitive to all forms of discrim-
ination or antisemitism," she admits. However, after a time she re-

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