Primary sources on the trajectories of Polish-Jewish refugees during World War II at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2023.825Abstrakt
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University has become an international hub for research and documentation. With more than a million volumes and 6,000 archival collections on war, revolution, and peace, it serves as one of the biggest knowledge repository worldwide.
The holdings contain the most extensive and comprehensive documentation related to modern Polish history outside of Poland. Among them are rich and unique collections of primary diplomatic, philanthropic, memoiristic, visual, and other sources. The article outlines the most valuable sources and their collections on the trajectories of Polish Jewish refugees during World II. The very brief presentation of the up-to-date unexplored sources indicates that the growing research on Polish and Polish Jewish war refugees still has the potential to be expanded.
Bibliografia
Hoover Institution Library and Archives:
• Anders (Władysław) collection, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0p3000tg/entire_text/?query=anders%20collection [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Hoover Institutional Records, Box 37C,
• Karski (Jan) papers 1939–2007, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf187001bd/entire_text/?query=Karski%20(Jan)%20papers [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ambasada (France) records 1919–1945, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4z09n74m/entire_text/?query=ambasada%20france [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ambasada (Great Britain) records, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6r29n86f/entire_text/?query=ambasada [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ambasada (Soviet Union) records, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf300002cm/entire_text/?query=ambasada [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ambasada (U.S.) records, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1489n4nr/entire_text/?query=ambasada [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Konsulat Generalny (New York, N.Y.) records 1940–1948, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2b69p9xq/entire_text/?query=konsulat [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji records, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5c60042m/entire_text/?query=ministerstwo%20informacji%20i%20dokumentacji [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji records, Box 124, Folder 1, Prot. No. 302, Zeznania Szlomy Begliktera,
• Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych records, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4v19n70w/entire_text/?query=Polish%20Ministry%20of%20Information [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Poland. Poselstwo (Portugal) records 1919–1957, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9w1007h9/entire_text/?query=konsulat [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Romer (Tadeusz) papers 1913–1975, [online] https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6h4nb1f4/entire_text/?query=tadeusz%20romer [accessed 01.02.2024],
• Stanisław Mikołajczyk papers, Box 36, Folder 11,
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• Lingelbach J., On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War, New York 2020.
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• Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union, eds. A. Grossmann, [et al.], Detroit 2017.
• Siekierski M., Zarys historii polskich zbiorów Biblioteki i Archiwum Instytutu Hoovera w Kalifornii, “Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi” 2017, special volume, pp. 547–556.
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