Repatriation certificate for Pessa Aron (Paulina) Włodawer

A bilingual certificate allowing departure (she is going [...] to reside permanently in Poland), No. 24528, for Pessa Aron Włodawer. With many daily stamps, including those documenting the trip and registration, on the recto and verso site. Additional information - at the bottom of the recto page - about the payment of the allowance in Ząbkowice on 31 August 1946 - 200 PLN , and registration in the repatriation office in Ząbkowice 6 [?]. 06.1946. Cf. MPOLIN-A4.1.45 - Artur Włodawer's certificate.Without thinking the Włodawers decided to return to Poland, which Paulina Włodawer mentions it in her diary, while reporting that for many people, including her brother Emanuel Justman, the decision was downright surprising. This is what she writes about her brother: “I have the impression that for Manek, meeting us and keeping in permanent, close touch were of great importance. From the very beginning his fate was different. Almost immediately after arriving in Białystok, he inattentively traveled deeper into the country and immediately lost all contact with the Polish (or Jewish-Polish) environment. While we still spoke almost exclusively Polish, we were still moving among the same people as us, and stubbornly opposed the adoption of Soviet citizenship, Manek immediately accepted a Soviet passport and spoke Russian without even having the opportunity to use Polish. There was another, even more important difference, not immediately tangible, but very important. We treated our entire stay in Russia as something temporary and we never doubted that we would return to Poland, although the reality often appeared catastrophic. [...] We felt connected with Poland, with its life and culture, and we could hardly imagine that we could voluntarily live elsewhere. [...] But coming back to Manek: having found himself among the Russians, as a young, lonely and embittered boy, he Russified very quickly, the more so because - unlike us - he never believed that he would ever be able to get out of Russia. [...] Afterwards, he repeatedly admitted that if he had not come into contact with us, he would not have thought to seek repatriation. He was completely prepared to stay there forever. We put it out of his head pretty quickly'' (MPOLIN-A4.1.1, entry of 27 April 1981).