Między dawnemi a nowemi laty. Readings for the 1st grade of junior high schools. With numerous illustrations in the text
Dr. Henryk Gaertner and Dr. Stanislaw Lempicki
Contents:
I. Let's open the book (including G. Morcinek - Sundays, R. Kipling - The First Letter, H. Sienkiewicz - Memoirs of Mariposa).
II. From beneath the dust of ages (among others, J. Slowacki - Under the Pyramids, A. Nemoyevsky - The Wanderer, A. Mickiewicz - Aryman and Oromaz)
III. In the footsteps of heroes (including K. Tetmajer - Heracles, A. Dygasiński - Obława w puszczy, Wedle S. Wyspiański - O góralskim Homer, Z. Kossak-Szczucka - Mongols)
IV. Across seas and lands (including From Homer's "Odyssey", M. Zaruski - The Adventure of Jasek Potyrała, W. Sieroszewski - On the Ocean, J. Mączka - The Way of the Legions)
V. The beautiful and the good (e.g. J. Parandowski - Gałązka dzikiej oliwekki, K. Wierzyński - Dyskobol, T. Sinko - O przyjaźni u Greków, J. Parandowski - Prayer of Aristotle).
VI. Podwaliny potęgi (among others, M. Konopnicka - Budujemy miłej ojczyźnie dom..., Quintus Horacius Flakkus - To the Roman boy, Plutarch of Cheronea - The Life of Cato, M. Konopnicka - Cycero)
VII. Lights amidst the darkness (among others, H. Sienkiewicz - In the Eternal City, K. Zawistowska - Agnes, S. Żeromski - The Albertan Brothers, Z. Kossak-Szczucka - The Pearls of St. Orszula)
Year of publication: Lviv 1933, published and owned by K.S. Jakubowski
p. 304
Format: 23 x 15.5 cm
Binding: publisher's booklet
Condition: complete and consistent, no underlining or signatures in the text, minor numerical signature in pencil] and minor foreign signature [pen] on the title page, foreign signature on the second page [pen], [PROVENANCE: on the title page a stamp "Deposit a penny. Tow. Popierania Budowy Szkół Powszechnych*" and stamp "Bibljoteka Gimnazjum św. Tereski w Rabce"], minor rusty discoloration [foxing - no harm to text], cover with dings and rubbing, minor paper paste-down on front cover, minor numerical signatures at top edge of cover [pencil].
*Public Public School Building Support Society (TPBPSP) - an association established in the first half of 1933 to raise funds from various sources, which were then to be turned into interest-free 20-year loans given to municipalities for school construction at 25% of the cost of construction.
** St. Theresa's Sanatorium Female Junior High School in Rabka (1918-1939). The school functioned in the "Tereska" villa. In 1940, the St. Tereska Female Gymnasium was replaced by the German School for Security Police and Security Service Commanders, which educated future Gestapo and Kripo cadres and officers of their subordinate units. In the spring and summer of 1942, on the square in front of the school, the Germans carried out the selection of Jews before executions. Poles arrested in Rabka - members of underground organizations - were also held in Villa "Tereska." For many Poles and Jews this place was one of the last stops before death ( per https://gmina.rabka.pl/main/aktualnosci/Rabka-78-lat-pozniej-Pamietamy/idn:5003)
