Oświata żydowska w powojennej Legnicy (1945–1968)
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2013
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Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk we współpracy z Zakładem Historii Wychowania, WSE UAM
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Education in post-war Legnica (1945–1968)
Abstract
When the war activities came to a close, first Jews started to come into town, mainly the former
prisoners from Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and then the displaced rescued in the territory of
the Soviet Union. The newcomers soon opened their own educational facilities and in the school
year 1946/1947 in Legnica there were: a kindergarten, a foster house, a heder, a primary school with
Hebrew as the language of lecture, a kibbutz and a Hebrew primary school. The educational pluralism
did not last long because from the school year 1950/1951 there remained just one state-controlled
Jewish school (the other facilities had been closed). The kindergarten was the only exception and
although it received the status of a public institution it preserved Jewish character until mid-50s.
The subsequent years brought significant fluctuation of teachers and students as many of them left
Poland in the first half of the 1950s, whereas from 1956 more newcomers arrived from the USSR.
On September 1, 1959 a high-school class was launched in the local primary school.
In the 1960s the emigration of Jews from Legnica increased significantly, which resulted in smaller
number of students. A breakthrough year was 1968, when, because of too small number
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education, Jews, Legnica, National Minorities, history of Poland
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Biuletyn Historii Wychowania, 2013, nr 29, s. 101-115.