General Haller's activities in the structure of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education in the government-in-exile during World War II Cover Image

Działalność gen. Józefa Hallera w strukturach resortu edukacji w rządzie na uchodźstwie podczas II wojny światowej
General Haller's activities in the structure of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education in the government-in-exile during World War II

Author(s): Katarzyna Śliwak
Subject(s): Education, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Keywords: Gen. Józef Haller; Office of Education and School Affairs; Government in Exile; Education in the UK;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author will present General Haller activity in the years 1940 - 1943 in London government-in-exile. Then Haller served as a minister without portfolio, who managed the Office of Education and School Affairs. The paper will be raising issues regarding the administrative organization of the unit, will present the profiles of the main activists of education (M. Jedlicki, F. Lenczowski, L. Kurdybacha). In later years costs of maintaining educational institutions in exile were rising, so the budget of the Office of Education and School Affairs will be examined in the specified objectives spending the money. Author briefly characterizes emerging business schools in exile in the UK, Cyprus, the Middle East, in the terms of number of students, teaching staff and the way General Haller supported the establishment. The primary source materials used in the paper are the archives of the Polish Institute and Museum of the general Sikorski in London (author of the query was there in July 2014) and the State Archives in Warsaw.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 253-260
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish