POLISH INFORMATION CENTER
IS5t EAST 67™ STREET, NEW YORK
RHINELANDER 4-2506
April 16, 1942
Dr. Walter M. Kotschnig
Professor of Comparative Education
58 Kensington Avenue
Northampton, Massachusetts
Dear Dr. Kotschnig:
Complying with your request of April 12,
regarding the status of education in Poland under
German rule, I take much pleasure in enclosing our
pamphlet #2 on "German Destruction of Cultural
bife in Poland", 8 & 9 on "Extermination of the Po-
lish People and Colonization by German Nationals,"
as well as two copies of The Polish Review, dealing
with Polish Edwation in pre-war times and under
the present German occupation.
some facts and documents pertaining to
education in Poland under German rule can be found
in the Polish White Book "German Occupation of Po-
land", which has been published recently by Grey-
stone Press, New York.
I have also on hand reports and clippims,
which will be available to you when you visit our
offices. ,
As yet no plans have been definitively
elaborated for the reconstruction and development
of education in Poland. Much attention and study
are devoted to this subject as it is of paramount
importance for the future.
Sincerdy yours,
Stefan de Ropp,
Director.
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April 26, 1942
Mr. Stefan de Ropp, Pirector
Polish Information Center
161 East 67th Street
New York City
Dear Mr, de Roppe:
Thank you ever so much for your very helpful
letter anda the material which you have so kindly
put at my disposal. I am gradually beginning to
get a pretty clear picture of the terrible
effectea of Nazi occupation on the cultural life
of Poland and 1 do hope that my book will eventual-
ly help other people to understand more clearly
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the full meaning of the soecalled “New Order",
Unfo: tunately, I have been laid up during most
of last week with a bad case of grippe and I
therefore hope that I may keep your material for
another week or tWoO.
During the third week of May I expect to spend
gome time in New York and I shall certainly
visit your office at that time. I should be
delighted if thia should give me an opportunity
to moet you in person.
With renewed thanks for your help, I am
Sincerely yours,
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July 9, 1942
Mr. Stefan De Ropp
Polish Information Center
151 East 67th Street
New York, New York
Dear Mr. De Ropp3:
Owing to overwork I have been only lately able
to study in detail the very helpful material which you
let me heave on the impact of Nazi occupation on the
cultural life of Poland. Following your request I am
returning pamphlet #2. Unfortunately, I discovered too
late that you wanted this particvler pamphlet returned
which explains the pencil marks, for which I apolbgize.
I now heave a fairly good picture of the ghastly
situation prevailing in Poland, and I hope to write
the Polish section of my book within the next 10 deys.
However, oefore doing so, I should very much like to
Giscuss a few points with you in perscn. I shall be
in New York this coming week from Wednesday noon, July 15
to Friday afternoon. Could you possibly spare me an
hour to discuss these points. Kindly let me have a
note to my summer address, P. O. Hox, Middlefield, Mass.
indicating the time and place most convenient for you.
In the hope that I shall have the pleasure of meeting
you next week.
Very sincerely yours,
Welter M. Kotschnig
POLISH INFORMATION CENTER
I5| EAST 67™ STREET, NEW YORK
RHINELANDER 4-2506
December 28, 1942
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Walter M. Kotschig, Esq.
58 Kensington Avenue
Northampton, Mass.
Dear Mr. Kotschnig:
Thank you very much for your letter.
As soon as I shall receive the book, I will
not fail to write you my appreciation as I feel
certain that much of its content will be extremely
constructive and interesting.
With best wishes of the Season, I am
Yours sincerely,
Stefan de Hopp,
Director.
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December 20, 1942
Professor Stefan De Rorcp
Polish Information Center
151 East "67th Street
New York, New York
Dear Baron De Ropp;: — |
I have asked the Oxford University Press to send
you en advence copy of my latest book, Slaves soo No
dex which deals with problems of postewar cational
reconstruction. May I take this opportunity to thank
you most sincerely for the help you gave me in preparing
the book. I do hope that in spirit and in content it
will meet with your approval and thet it will help
in our common etruggle esgainst Nazi barbarian.
In the hope thet I may have the pleasure of seeing
you again in the near future and with best wishes for
Christmss
Very sincerely yours,
Walter M. Kotsehnig
April 19, 1943
Professor Stefan DeRopp
Director, Polish Infomation Cenier
151 Fast 67th Street
New York, N. Y.
Dear Dr. DeRopp:
I hope you wili not mind my aending you a
few lines ic tell you hew very much I enjoyed your
talk to the Conference on iducational Me construc tion
held at New York University. It was one of the
best speeches I have ever heard on ime suvjecet and
one which ought to go a long way te dispell the
superficial thinking and ihe loose Vaik Which har
characterized so many discussions of post-war
educational problems in the pasi.
di wender whethir you huve « copy of your
a and if so whether you could let me have it.
I am in the stants preparing 4a report va the
New York Conference for Dr. John @- Studebaker who
has askcd me io sugremant the Office of Zducation
at the mecting, and I should very much like to
Ainmelude in the repoxi apecific referemcs te your
talk which to my mind was one of the highlights
of the conierence.
wjth beset wishes.
Wik sEYT | Very sincerezy yours,
POLISH INFORMATION CENTER
IS5|t EAST 67™ STREET, NEW YORK
RHINELANDER 4-2506
April 14, 1943
Prof. Walter M.Kotschnig
58 Kensington Avenue
Northampton, Mass.
My dear Professor Kotschnig:
Thank you so much for your kind appreciation
of my remarks at the Educational Reconstruction Con-
ference. I am highly gratified with your kind cri-
ticism.
I beg to enclose herewith the gist of my re-
marks which, I must confess, I have prepared only
after receiving your letter since I spoke mostly
from memory and from a few notes jotted down on a
scrap of paner a few minutes before my speech. On
the other hand, the problems are familiar to me. I
did a good deal of experimental pedagogical work as
an application of the work of Eduard Ferrers of the
Geneva Institute Jaques Rousseau, both in South Afri-
ca and in Poland, having had teaching experience in
high schools, colleges and universities. “or this
reason my remarks had a practical application be-
eause they stem from intimate experiences with the
subftect and this orobably accounts for their being
more intelligible to many colleagues in the audience.
Thanking you once more for your kind remarks,
believe me
Yours very sincerely,
ngs
Stefan de Kopp,
Director.
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lish Information Cente> 3
151 Fest 67th Strect
New York, NeY. .
iy dear OTe DeRapp:
‘Thank: you se much for sending me the notes gl
your speech. It reads as well as it sounded when
delivered the address and I wonder whether you cou .
not oarenee to have it published somewhere in this
country. I believe that Dre “William C. ome jg of
hgol snd, socket mi gh ght be intercsted. This magazine
1 ey group of American educators. —
In reference to Point 5 of your lecotuuc
| adeéal with the question of exanimtions, it
that you might be interested in a series of reports
which were published in the early thirties by the"In- —
ternational Exanination iti Mig 9 = was financed —
rnegiec Endowaent for the Advancement of Teach=
Dre Ie In Kandel = teaghets College, Colum |
bia University, served as secretary @f the a Kaqui zy and
will, I am sure, be glad to meke aveilable to you the
- ‘yarioug reporte which were published. The Inqui mere |
went a loag way in demolishing the purely “acad ce"
Ao Syge of cxantasthins but did not in my ——— go
= far enough in developing substitutes. |
With renewed thanks for your kindness.
oe se | Very sincerely yours,
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