Reading the Archive

Understanding sources preserved across three decades of LEMKO.org.

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Original historical material

Documents, inscriptions, photographs and contemporary publications should be read in the language and context in which they were created.

Personal testimony

Memories and eyewitness/community accounts can preserve information unavailable elsewhere. Where possible, LEMKO.org will identify who supplied the account, when it was recorded, and what is independently corroborated.

Scholarship

Academic and historical writing interprets evidence. Different researchers and institutions may reach different conclusions; those differences should be attributed rather than hidden.

LEMKO.org editorial notes

Modern explanatory notes added during the remaster should be clearly separated from original source material so future readers can tell the difference.