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Title: Stanisław Kroczak papers
Dates: 1947-1988
Collection Number: 2012C28
Creator: Kroczak, Stanisław.
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Polish military activities during World War II.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Polish
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Stanisław Kroczak papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2012.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Kroczak was an officer with the Twenty-Second Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps.
Scope and Content of Collection
Memoirs, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Polish military activities during World War II.
In his memoirs Kroczak recalls his childhood in a village south of the city of Lwow (now Lviv), his fight against invading
German and Soviet forces in September 1939, and his subsequent imprisonment and hard labor in the north of Russia. He goes
on to detail his release from the GULAG in the summer of 1941, when the Soviets joined the Allies against the Germans, and
his life in the newly formed Polish units evacuated from the USSR via the Middle East to fight the Germans in Italy.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland.
Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne.