I.L. Perec Jewish Public School No. 162 in Łódź Żydowska Szkoła Powszechna nr 162 im. I. L. Pereca w Łodzi (Sygn. 2340)

The collection includes: assessment books, books of school council, class books and grades. Contains lists of school children. After the war, it was the only Jewish school in Łódź, children who survived the war and had the experience of ghettos and camps were learning there. In the school, alongside Polish and Polish history, Hebrew and Yiddish were taught. Among the graduates of this school was Henryk Grynberg, a writer living after 1968 in the USA. In 2009, a film directed by Sławomir Grunberg entitled "The Peretzniks" was made, telling the story of the school and its pupils spreading around the world. Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych Jewish Public School No. 162 was created in 1946, it was located in a large building on ul. Kilińskiego 49, later it was moved to ul. Więckowskiego 13. At that time, the school had the number XXVII and it was a primary school and a Jewish high school. Schools were liquidated as a result of the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968, most of the students immigrated with their parents abroad.