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The pressure of war, living abroad in the face of a military conflict, has been a challenge for education throughout the ages. The aim of this article is to show the contemporary challenges of Polish education, which welcomes and supports Ukrainian students. In addition, the paper is comparative in nature, drawing on the Hungarian-Romanian experience of tutor, writer, and glottodidactician Kazimiera Ilłakowiczówna’s life in emigration. What were, and what are, the teaching methods and problems faced by the multicultural, multinational society of Central Europe? The work aims to show a mosaic of examples from the life of a Polish school, from teaching methodology and didactics. It is supposed to make us aware of the problems faced by contemporary education, which are echoed from the past of the Polish community during the Second World War in the 20th century.