Daily life of young Varsovians during the interwar period in the capital of our country was filled with youthful, carefree freedom and the joy of regained independence. Young Poles spent their time in a variety of ways, and their interests concerned many aspects. The main information about the social life of Warsaw youth comes to us from letters, written by Bogdan Kajak, as well as from those addressed to him and from the diary, kept until the first bombs in Warsaw and the beginning of the German occupation.
Students attending junior high school were willing to go to “settlements” – spring camps where, above all, social life flourished.
The sense of patriotism and religion played an important role in the life of young people at this time. Bogdan’s letters did not lack references to the upcoming or recent memorials of saints, most often the patrons of a given family member. The formation of patriotism in the youth was visible already on the first day of the stay at the camp. Before the beginning of other classes, the Polish national anthem was sung at the opening. Bogdan describes this type of attitude as a natural and obvious thing, which proves how much the society paid attention to the education of the young generation as citizens aware of their identity.
