Tajna szkoła w Generalgouvernement 1939–1945. Studium przypadku — Gmina Krzeszowice

Education in Poland during the German occupation (1939–1945) was divided into two streams: legal teaching under Nazi supervision (elementary and vocational schools only) and underground teaching covering elementary as well as high school education, including the matura exam. Both streams ran simultaneously. This study examines underground teaching in Krzeszowice, a small town c. 20 kilometers to the west of Cracow, using the method of a case study. The aim of the paper is to prove that the microscale of Krzeszowice reflects the macroscale of bigger cities, such as Cracow and Rzeszów. As we can observe, the structure of underground teaching in a small community of Krzeszowice was identical to one in the big urban centres.