Lithuanian Refugee Professional Training in West Germany in 1944–1950 (Secondary and Higher Education) Cover Image

Lietuvių karo pabėgėlių profesinis rengimas Vakarų Vokietijoje 1944–1950 m. (vidurinis ir aukštesnysis ugdymas)
Lithuanian Refugee Professional Training in West Germany in 1944–1950 (Secondary and Higher Education)

Author(s): Asta Urbonavičiūtė, Algirdas Ažubalis
Subject(s): History
Published by: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Keywords: refugee; West Germany; education system; professional training

Summary/Abstract: When the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in 1944, several thousand Lithuanians retreated to West Germany and were accommodated in DP (displaced persons) camps. Basically, DPs were without rights; they had no rights to free work and movement. Antebellum independent Lithuania’s education experience was applied at the maximum, in 1945-1950 under heavy and extraordinarily conditions Lithuanian inhabitants in West Germany restored independence for Lithuania’s secondary and higher education systems and created opportunities to the youth to pursue the professional background in varying formal education establishments (gymnasium, profession school, higher education institutions) and in non-formal (different courses) Lithuanian profession training establishments. Through these establishments the Lithuanian youth had opportunity to obtain wanted profession, to integrate with the foreign community, whereas the profession training establishments, such as institutions, educated young generation and supported nationally, by making the opportunity to the Lithuanians to learn in their native language.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-33
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Lithuanian