About one was written that "he lured students to empty school classes". Another was not even actually an educator. He claimed to be him and everyone believed him. How many victims did they have on their conscience?
A century-old Kraków sexologist, Stanisław Kurkiewicz wrote openly about all sexual deviations and various abuses taking place in a supposedly peaceful city on the Vistula River. In 1906, he even recalled that he came across a teacher who, in a suburban school, "had a few more liked girls for many years, some of whom stayed a few times a week as a punishment" after classes.
The man undressed her and played with her genitals. He was never punished for this, and Kurkiewicz learned the truth only because one of his patients "was used by this teacher from the age of 7 for 6 years".
"A series of rape of minors." Cases from pre-war Krakow
For some reason, the capital of Lesser Poland was full of similar stories. In 1925, "Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny" reported on the case of a certain Stefan Piech, who had no teaching qualifications at all, but for years he successfully impersonated a teacher, committing "a series of rapes on underage girls".
A class of a pre-war Polish elementary school. Exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow.
This was what he was doing for degenerate pleasure. Instead, he earned money as a burglar and counterfeiter. The police finally trapped him near the Market Square in Kraków. Desperate Piech preferred death to arrest. He took cyanide and died on the spot.
A year earlier, "Goniec Krakowski" explicitly stated that the opinion of the city as a quiet, peaceful place, inhabited by "ordinary people of bread" should be regarded as "false and appearances". An example was the story of "the director of one of the Krakow seminar courses", Mr. R. Using his position and influence, he was supposed to "trick his students and seduce them".
According to journalists, there were six victims, and four of them have allegedly given birth to children for the teacher. The perpetrator was directly described as a "rapist", although there are many indications that the case was artificially (and politically) blown up. The educator was famous for his leftist views, while the newspaper had a clearly National Democratic profile. In any event, the police failed to confirm the charges [4]. Although this, of course, with the government's blindness to sexual crimes at the time, proves nothing.
"Immoral acts against underage schoolgirls." Perverted educators in Greater Poland
The degenerate also prowled at the Poznań school. This time it was not about a teacher, but about a janitor working in elementary school number 12. And in contrast to the case near Wawel, the accusations seem to be much better argued. The report was made by a doctor after examining a 15-year-old pregnant student. Soon, the mother of another girl attending the same school joined the charges.
The facade of one of the pre-war elementary schools in Poznań. Illustrative illustration.
As it was established:“This pervert has allegedly been involved in his criminal practice for several years, luring underage and naive schoolgirls to empty classrooms during his service. So far, it has been possible to establish the number of 7 Tchaikovsky victims aged 11 to 15 ”. According to reports by Nowy Kurier, the investigation was facing serious difficulties. Parents tried to conceal the misfortune of their children, and Tchaikovsky denied the acts attributed to him. Nevertheless, he was placed in pre-trial detention.
The end of the case is hard to pinpoint. Perhaps, like many others, it was swept under the rug. Even when convictions did take place, they were reported in extremely perfunctory words.
In 1934, the court sent the primary school teacher, Aleksander Kozic, to prison. Near Nowy Tomyśl, he committed "immoral acts against his underage students". The punishment was, for the times, extremely severe:four years of imprisonment. Nevertheless, "Kurier Warszawski" devoted only a two-sentence note to history on the sixth out of eight pages of the issue.