Outline of the Activities of the Charitable Society in Konin in the Thirties of the Twentieth Century Show in the Light of the Minutes Written in the Volume of the Meetings of the Board Cover Image

Zarys działalności Towarzystwa Dobroczynności w Koninie w latach trzydziestych XX wieku w świetle księgi protokołów zebrań zarządów
Outline of the Activities of the Charitable Society in Konin in the Thirties of the Twentieth Century Show in the Light of the Minutes Written in the Volume of the Meetings of the Board

Author(s): Ewa Barnaś-Baran
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Konin; charity society; care; poor; begging

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to analyze the functioning of the Charitable Society in Konin in the years 1933-1939. The realization of the research objective was made possible primarily by manuscript materials collected in the State Archive in Poznań. Branch in Konin. It was a book of protocols, documenting the Society’s board meetings. It was established that the Charitable Society in Konin took care of poor children and adults. It provided total care as well as ad hoc support. They were looked after by the Sisters of Mercy, and after 1937 by Albertines brought from Kraków. The wards stayed in a shelter and an orphanage.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: IX
  • Page Range: 189-200
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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