Abstract

This article is devoted in part to forgotten figures and culture-forming institutions from the interwar period in Lodz, focusing mainly on the Commission for General Education and its Executive Department, under the direction of S. Kopciński, and the intensive work of the Lodz municipal government to eliminate illiteracy and optimize the functioning of primary and secondary schools. Also described are the partially successful efforts in Lodz to open a college, the city’s unique system of libraries, and achievements in the publishing of daily newspapers and literary socio-literary magazines. Furthermore, the article discusses poets, outstanding teachers, and educational and cultural activists from Lodz, many of whom cooperated with Lodz Radio station, which began broadcasting in 1930.