Living in Canada, even though I'd certainly be interested in helping, it isn't really an option. Still I'd like to offer a comment. The fact that the Institute is willing to let volunteers take up the task is huge. Cataloging and documenting as of yet unknown material?
I know an individual who approached the Hoover Institute several years ago with a solid plan about organizing and digitizing material from the Anders' collection, starting with the testimonies and pictures. The constraints they placed to do that made the project undoable and so there everything sits just as it was.
I hope the PISM project is a success.
Terry Polewski
Windsor, Canada
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:21 PM, wroblew705@... [Kresy-Siberia]
wrote:
Kresy-Siberia is looking for some volunteers and here’s why. During an
interesting and informative visit to the Polish Institute and Sikorski
Museum (PISM) in May 2014 I was told their archive had many documents
that were still un-catalogued. With this in mind I recently proposed to
Kresy-Siberia’s executive board the idea of approaching PISM to have
active Kresy-Siberia members voluntarily help catalogue these
unidentified documents. For the moment I am posting this only to get
an idea of numbers who would be interested in participating in such an
effort. I will add that this is open to everyone and not exclusive to UK
members. Once these documents are catalogued the museum would have a
better sense of what they have which will provide future academics,
historians and the public with a rich source of research material. Now
to be clear this is ‘only cataloguing’ which is a careful and respectful
inspection and identification of rare irreplaceable documents, not a
translation of their contents. I have no idea as to how much is
un-catalogued or how long such a project would take, it would likely be a
progressive task. Was asked if I would coordinate the project and
gladly accepted. Once I have a better sense of numbers I will confer
with the executive board after which PISM will be approached with an
offer, if they accept plans can then be formulated. That being said
please post or message me if you are interested.
Chris Wroblewski
