The National Archives of Poland
We met again with Burse, in charge of relations outside of Poland. She reviewed the complexity of the archival system in Poland and was interested in continuing cooperation. She mentioned that the project headed by Montreal resident Stanley Diamond was being renegotiated. Known as JRI Poland the indexing project raises funds from interested researchers and funds the indexing of Jewish archival holdings. The Index can be found online at: http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/
The Polish Mission and Michigan Polonia hope to establish a similar program for records of interest in the Polish regional archives. Using the online catalog tools SEZAM and PRADZIAD one finds that only 20 percent of Catholic records are held by the National Archives.
