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A few years after the death of the world's most famous Pole, archival materials concerning his life and ministry are still largely scattered, and often unavailable. That is why the Centre for Thoughts of John Paul II undertook to locate, secure, and elaborate on the contents and technical aspects of the collection related to Karol Wojtyła in order to make it available to all interested parties for educational, popularization and research purposes.

The portal is intended for people involved in the broadly understood popularization of John Paul II's thought and education (catechists, educators, artists, film producers, journalists, culture animators) and academic researchers dealing with the legacy of Karol Wojtyla as research material. The portal is aimed to be a useful tool for all those interested in the figure and pontificate of the Polish Pope.

Enter the selected phrase in the search engine, e.g. "family". The search results show all materials related to this phrase: the words of John Paul II in audio version, texts of speeches, photographs, interviews with the witnesses of the pontificate and publications providing a study on the subject or comments.
The left panel displays filters that allow you to change or specify search results, e.g. by media type, year or collection.
Collections:
In the tab you can find collections belonging to partner organizations. Their resources, developed and made available within the JP2online project, are divided into collections of materials according to the thematic scope, year, type of archives: audio, video, photographs, and documents.
 
Registration of the user:
For full use of the portal, please register. After logging in you will be able to download some materials, create notes, mark your favourite objects and the system will remember your search history.

The project is implemented by the Centre for Thoughts of John Paul II, the local government institution of culture of the Capital City of Warsaw - a place for meetings and dialogue and a centre which brings the Pope's teachings closer. (www.centrumjp2.pl)

The project is implemented in partnership with numerous state and church institutions, which have provided thousands of archives from their own resources to be made available on JP2online. Those are:

• Archdiocese of Warsaw
• Archive of New Files
• National Archive in Krakow
• The National Audiovisual Institute Film Archives
• Institute of National Remembrance
• The Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński Primates Institute,
• Tertio Millennio Institute,
• Monastery of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Niepokalanow,
• General Directorate of State Archives
• Polish Radio
• The Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of the Jesus