Education in community archives: the KARTA Centre and the General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation
Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
Year: 2017

In general, community archives are grass-roots documentary initiatives built around a broadly defined community, which collect, preserve, describe and provide access to historical sources concerning a previously chosen topic, e.g. local history and traditions, a social movement, a minority, an ethnic group, an event or a person. The phenomenon of community archiving is not new, but only several years ago it started to be described by scholars in Poland.The article describes educational activitie