ABSTRACT
The twentieth year of the twentieth century was a momentous one for the people of Poland as a whole, and for one Polish family in particular. The river Vistula is the largest and longest river in Poland. According to one account, the Jewish school in Wloclawek was thought to be one of the best schools of its type in Poland. Because of the strong political and cultural links between France and Poland during the Imperial era, French seems to have been quite widely used as a second language. The early years of the new Polish Republic were also a time of great political flux. Anti-Semitism was never far from the surface in the Polish media, especially in the Catholic press, and in political discourse. Although anti-Semitism was common, the frequent daily contact between Jewish and Catholic students also sometimes resulted in cross-group friendships.
