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Thesis on the subject of schools and Jewish education in Lodz, 1939-1945, submitted by Helena Smolenska in order to receive the Master's degree

Thesis on the subject of schools and Jewish education in Lodz, 1939-1945, submitted by Helena Smolenska in order to receive the Master's degree The subjects selected for the paper: The relationship between the German authorities and the Jewish schools; transfer of the Jewish schools to the supervision of the Judenrat; school books and Jewish education in the ghetto; holidays for children; high schools and vocational schools; the Judenrat Educational Department; education in the underground; vocational training courses in the ghetto. Many sources are attached to the thesis, among them: Correspondence...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Excerpts from weekly publications of the Polish Ministry of the Interior containing information regarding the life of the Jewish minority in Poland, 1938-1939

Excerpts from weekly publications of the Polish Ministry of the Interior containing information regarding the life of the Jewish minority in Poland, 1938-1939 The excerpts were taken from leaflets published by the Polish Ministry of the Interior, 1938-1939, regarding the lives of the nationalist minorities in Poland, 1938-1939. They were classified as "Secret Material" and not intended for wide distribution. In the file there are excerpts pertaining to reactions of Jewish political parties, organizations and cultural personalities to the deteriorating situation of the Jews in Europe and the future of...

File Number : 27

Type of Material : Reports, Investigation Report

Language : Polish

17 issues of the "Nasza Gazetka" (Our Newspaper) newspaper, which was written and edited by the youth of the orphanage in Marysin in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1941

17 issues of the "Nasza Gazetka" (Our Newspaper) newspaper, which was written and edited by the youth of the orphanage in Marysin in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1941 The first issue was published 24 August 1940, and the last one, 12 January 1941. Songs/poems, stories, letters and testimonies of teachers and youth at the orphanage in the Marysin suburb of the Lodz Ghetto were published in the newspaper; the texts pertain to life at the orphanage, events that took place in the ghetto and memories of the period prior to the outbreak of the war.

File Number : 215

Type of Material : Memoirs, Stories, Newspaper, Poems/songs

Language : Polish

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940

Letter from the Czestochowa Judenrat to the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS- Jewish Social Self Help) administration in Krakow, 28 August 1940 Overview of cultural institutions and organizations and of charity and social welfare associations in Czestochowa; the Judenrat is requesting to maintain those institutions and organizations the termination of whose activities has been decided by order of the German authorities as of 23 July 1940. A list of organizations included in the German order dated 23 July 1943 is in the file.

File Number : 347

Type of Material : Letter, List

Language : Polish, German

The memoirs of Tadeusz Zychiewicz regarding the character, activities and works Janusz Korczak

The many facets of Korczak's character and complex personality. According to Zychiewicz, Korczak's unique view of the child in a world separate from the world of adults would certainly deny him any role in today's educational frameworks. His opposition to rigid frameworks and his personal approach to each child as he is are radically different from the accepted methods of education both then and now. The writer reviews Korczak's childhood and education, his work as a doctor in hospitals, his free or nominally paid visits to the poor compared to the large fees he charged from the rich. Korczak experienced a...

File Number : 172

Type of Material : Memoirs, Biography

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Articles regarding the education of the Jewish child published by the "Association of Friends of the Child" in the years between World War I and World War II; photographs from a catalogue and woodcuts pertaining to the Holocaust by Carter Bruce, which was held in Warsaw, Poland, 1985 The care and education of the Jewish child from infancy, early childhood and school age are discussed in the articles; advice to mothers, hospitals and institutions for Jewish children; among the publications are memoirs of Janusz Korczak regarding the time he worked as a physician in a children's hospital and his article...

File Number : 120

Type of Material : Exhibition Catalog, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Memoirs

Language : Polish