Škola za války bez války: Organizace školního vzdělávání a mimoškolních aktivit pro dětské válečné uprchlíky z Chorvatska na území České republiky
School during war without war: Organization of school education and extracurricular activities for child war refugees from Croatia in the territory of the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: The article, based on primary sources and narrators’ recollections, explores the lives of temporary refugees in exile in Czechoslovakia, who were rescued during the civil war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In September and October 1991, a total of 1500 children were transported from western Slavonia to the then Czech and Slovak Federative Republic to escape the horrors of war. Of these, 1321 children were transported by organized means, while others joined the mass evacuated groups in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia. The children, predominantly from the Czech minority in Croatia, were accommodated in seven recreational facilities, where they were cared for by teachers from Croatia as well as Czech, especially medical, personnel. Using historical methods and a qualitative approach to data analysis in the social sciences, we will explore the organization of education, leisure activities for the children, provision of healthcare, and opportunities for communication with their homeland.

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