Wkład ORT’u w powojenną odbudowę społeczności żydowskiej w Polsce 1946–1950
ORT Contribution to Post-War Reconstruction of Jewish Community in Poland 1946-1950

Summary/Abstract: ORT, an organization active in the field of vocational education in the 2nd Republic and until 1942, returned to Poland in 1946 in order to help the survivors to learn a trade or improve their vocational skills. Over 4 years, until its dissolution in 1950, it provided vocational training to over 3,000 graduates at training courses and in vocational schools, offering them better occupational and money-earning prospects and, consequently, a better life. ORT schools were addressed both to youth (12 vocational schools were active in 1949), and to adults, chiefly craftsmen who widened their knowledge of the trade,to women with no vocational skills, who could thus learn a trade and appear on the labor market, and to persons wishing to change their occupation by acquiring new skills. ORT’s contribution to post-war aid to the survivors, the rebuilding of Jewish life and its efforts to modernize the Jewish community have never been duly appreciated.

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