Jan Karski Collection

Identifier
P.42
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 2007
Level of Description
Record group
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Polish
Scripts
  • Latin
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

36 35 mmn microfilm reels

Creator(s)

Archival History

After the war Jan Karski gathered official documentation, private documentation and journals regarding the period of the occupation of Poland, the Polish underground, activities of the Polish government-in- exile and Polish and Jewish organizations in the Diaspora. This Collection and the personal documentation belonging to Jan Karski were transferred to the Hoover Institute in Stanford, California.

Scope and Content

The documentation in the Collection: Correspondence, memos, government documentation, bulletins, reports, research, texts of speeches, printed matter, photographs, newspapers and newspaper clippings, journals and microfilm regarding the events and the living conditions in occupied Poland during World War II, the German occupation and the Soviet occupation, the attitude towards the Jews and activities of the Polish underground.

Existence and Location of Originals

  • HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE, STANFORD CA

Existence and Location of Copies

  • YV archives

Archivist Note

JL according to the RG description in the YV system

Dates of Descriptions

2012-02-27