page_title: Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School
section_title: 1920-1939
hierarchical_section_title: Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School / History / 1920-1939
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Polskie Gimnazjum Realne im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Orłowej na Zaolziu w Czechosłowacji. Budynek gimnazjum - widok zewnętrzny. Przed budynkiem w grupie osób widoczny dyrektor szkoły Piotr Feliks. (Koncern Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny - Archiwum Ilustracji) English: Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School in Orłowa, Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia
context_page_description: Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School is a Polish grammar school in the town of Czeski Cieszyn, in the Zaolzie region of the Czech Republic. It is the only Polish secondary school in the country, serving the educational purposes of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic.
  The school was founded in 1909 in the town of Orłowa as the second Polish secondary school on the territory of Zaolzie.
context_section_description: The period after World War I seemed to be very turbulent. The independent Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed on October 28, 1918; the Polish Republic on November 11. Silesia, mainly Cieszyn Silesia, became the eye of conflict between the two.
  On May 15, 1920 Polish grammar school was closed for the second time owing to the ethnic riots in Orłowa.
  The final partition of Cieszyn Silesia happened on July 28, 1920. Orłowa together with the school remained on the Czechoslovak territory. On September 17, 1920 the school was reopened as a private eight-year secondary school with Polish as the first language.
  At the eve of the beginning of the World War II other important events took place. Czechoslovakia was forced to give Cieszyn Silesia to Poland on October 1, 1938. Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School continued its educational work, with mixed Czechoslovak-Polish curriculum.
caption: Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School in Orłowa - Obroki in 1920-1929
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