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1941/1942, Warsaw, ghetto. Anonymous testimony of a young refugee from Warsaw studying in Lvov, about the situation at higher education institutions in Lvov and the passportisation conducted by the Soviet authorities in the spring of 1940
[1] Student Life
Higher educational institutions in Lvov were significantly expanded. The faculties of medicine and veterinary medicine were extracted from the university, to form separate institutes. The Soviet Trade Institute was established in place of the former Foreign Trade Institute. The Technical University and the Conservatory were also reorganised. Aside from the higher educational institutes, known as VUZes, there were also secondary vocational schools known as technikums, as well as painting, pedagogical, and music schools. The number of students in Lvov exceeded that in London (!). Many professors who had taught before the war retained their chairs. The faculty composition at the Technical University remained almost the same as before the war. Professors were allowed to teach in Polish. Some leading Polish [scholars ] who have not received their chairs before the war [2] or could not teach for political reasons or because of their nationality had the opportunity to teach such as Tadeusz BoyŻeleński,585 who received the French Literature chair at the Faculty of Romance Studies , and Ukrainian philologists Wozniak586 and Stadnicki at the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology. The life of refugee students was relatively hard. They needed to survive on scholarships amounting to 130 roubles per month during the first year, 150 roubles during the second, and 175 [roubles during] the third. Most refugee students […]. Many of my friends had no clothes to put on […].
[3] [Scholarships] were paid irregularly. The students took notes during lectures with their fingers numbed by the cold and they studied at night in
