Underground Jewish education, with textbooks either written by hand or typed, is now developing throughout Nazi-held Poland in defiance of the Gestapo order under which all Jewish schools had been closed, it was reported here today.
A system has been organized by which elementary and high school teaching is carried on secretly. The children are organized into small classes of five or six, meeting in a different place every day. Travelling teachers go from town to town, staying a few weeks in each place. These teachers specialize in one subject, so that during a visit the pupils concentrate on that particular subject and, when the next teacher arrives, turn to another. So successful is the system that plans are now being made for introducing university education. In some ghettoes, young people are already reading for a degree in history, the report says.
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