Bratnia Pomoc
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Bratnia Pomoc (English: Brotherly Help), also known as Bratniak, is a popular Polish students’ mutual aid organization. First branch of Bratniak was created in 1859 at the Jagiellonian University, thirty years later another branch was opened at the Warsaw University.
Bratnia Pomoc was originally aimed at helping poorer students, providing them with loans, it also supported cheap cafeterias for those who could not afford more expensive places. Its members were also active in educating population of Polish towns and villages, preventing them from Russification and Germanization.
In the interbellum period Bratniak had its offices at all Polish colleges as well as then-German Gdansk University of Technology. Most organizations of Bratniak, however, were in the 1930s dominated by the nationalist Academic Union “All Polish Youth”.
After World War II Bratniak existed until early 1950s, then it was dissolved and replaced with communist organization Zrzeszenie Studentów Polskich (Association of Polish Students). Bratnia Pomoc was recreated after 1989.
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