Students and Graduates of Gdynia Primary Schools in the fi rst Post-war Decade (1945–1956)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to answer the following research question: what did the process of education of school youth look like in the fi rst post-war decade, and what was the infl uence of wartime experiences on school youth? The text presents a group of pupils from Gdynia primary schools in the years 1945-1956, which is a representative group for the research on the process of education of schoolchildren in urban schools in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland. However, the article also emphasizes the infl uence of the region on the formation of the group ofchildren from Gdynia’s schools. Moreover, the article presented problems and challenges related to the reconstruction of education in the post-war period, which both students and teachers had to face.