World War II subject collection
Scope and Content
Leaflets, pamphlets, proclamations, clippings, propaganda, manuals, other printed matter, letters, reports, memoranda, maps, memorabilia, and miscellany, relating to military operations and home front conditions in many countries during World War II, including material on military occupations, prisoners of war, and forced labor. Also includes material on resistance movements in various countries, especially France. In various languages. Indexes: Register. Includes the former collection: Poland - World War II - Newspaper Clippings, l942 43. Clippings (in English and Yiddish), l942-l943. l ms. box. Includes materials relating to German atrocities in occupied Poland, persecution and extermination of Jews, activities of Polish emigre groups, and the case of Victor Alter and Henryk Erlich. Clippings from U.S. daily newspapers and from Yiddish newspapers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa. Arranged by date.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
92 ms. boxes, 3 card file boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 10 videotape cassettes, 2 phonorecords, memorabilia.
Archivist Note
Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson
Sources
The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0