Query of Centre staff in Warsaw as part of NPRH project
On 8-10 April 2024, a second in-country search was carried out – this time in Warsaw, as part of the NPRH programme and the related grant entitled ‘Diaspora of Polish Sybiraks in the world – record of source accounts/notations and home archives of Sybiraks in the country – archival team’, under the direction of Hubert Chudzio, PhD, Professor UKEN, with the aim of completing the documentation on Polish Sybiraks. Natalia Kaszuba, MA, and Natalia Czesak, MA, participated in the search.
Warsaw is a large archival and library centre, home to the largest central and state archives, public archives and university libraries. To this day, the capital is home to the General Board of the Sybiraków Association and NGOs (KARTA Centre Foundation), which, among other things, collect, preserve and store archives.
At the Archives of the Sybiraks’ Association in Warsaw, the search contractors familiarised themselves with the Wojciechowski Family Collection. During the visit, contact was established with the Head of the Main Board Office, Ms Agnieszka Munik, and preliminary discussions were held on future cooperation between the CDZWiP and the Association. During the three days of work, the team also carried out a search in the University of Warsaw Library, during which 4 magazines of the Fighting Republic from 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1944 were digitised. Further research was carried out in the Archive of New Files, where over a thousand archival pages of documents, photographs and others were digitised. The last place of research was the Archives of the KARTA Centre Foundation, where the collections of the Eastern Archives were studied. They mainly concerned the fate of Polish citizens under Soviet occupation and resettlement after the Second World War.
