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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