ZOFIA ORŁOWSKA (1905–1995) – NAUCZYCIELKA I WYCHOWAWCZYNI NA UCHODŹSTWIE

• Authors: Chmielewski Witold Jan

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ZOFIA ORŁOWSKA (1905–1995) – A TEACHER AND EDUCATOR IN EXILE

Abstracts

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Zofia Orłowska, a Polish teacher, was deported into the depths of Soviet Union during the Second World War. From there she managed to depart to Iran and later to India, where she worked with Polish children in a Polish Balachidi-Jamnagar community. Subsequently, in 1943, with a group of immigrants, she managed to arrive in Santa Rosa, Mexico – the place created for Polish citizens to inhabit during the war. She became a principal of an elementary school and later a teacher in a lower comprehensive school. Aer the community had been closed on December 31, 1946, she supported Polish expatriates in settling in Mexico. In the years between 1947 and 1952 she became the head of the Tlalpan women and children shelter, built on the outskirts of Mexico city. Her main goal was to provide decent living conditions for her charges. She became a close associate of father Józef Jarzębowski who was, at the time, the priest and educator in Tlalpan and Santa Rosa. At the end of 1952 Zoa Orłowska moved to the USA, from where she le shortly aer to the UK. Together with father Jarzębowski she devoted herself to the education of the youth in St Stanisław Kostka Boarding School in Lower Bullingham near Hereford in West England. In the late 50s she became employed in the Divine Mercy College in Fawley Court near London. She would continue her work there until the college was closed in 1986. She was remembered as a distinguished teacher and educator, loved by her students. She died in Fawley Court in 1995.

Keywords

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Zoƒa Orłowska; Polish teacher; educator; exile; Balachidi-Jamnagar (India); Tlalpan and Santa Rosa (Mexico); Lower Bullingham and Fawley Court (England)

• Publisher: Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie w Londynie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe PUNO
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 315-335

Contributors

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Chmielewski Witold Jan

• Akademia Ignatianum