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[A wooden hut] [An iconographic document]
Date issued/created: Description:The photo depicts a wooden hut with a porch. Under the miniature of the photo there is the inscription saying: "The elementary school in Turów during the occupation". According to the photo's owner, it depicts a one-classroom elementary school which his wife attended during the entire period of the occupation. It was a timber building clad with wooden boards. The entry to the building leads through the porch. The school consisted of a single room of approximately 20 m2; the second part of the building was occupied by a private apartment and a small shop. The building was a private property of shopkeeper (...). The classroom was heated with an iron wood-burning stove; the firewood was chopped and provided to the school by him personally. As a result of the insufficient heating and draughty windows the ink in ink-wells tended to freeze. Before the II WW the school occupied the same building ; 1939-1945 r., Turów, com. Olsztyn, voiv. śląskie ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)
Type of object: Subject and Keywords:ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; wooden architecture ; school ; education ; conspiracy ; underground education ; Turów, Olsztyn commune (Poland)
Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Source: Rights:Rights Reserved - Restricted Access
Terms of use: Digitizing institution:Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Projects co-financed by:Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
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