Inventory of the Stanislaw Kroczak Papers

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Inventory of the Stanisław Kroczak Papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives
Date Completed:: 2012
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Word and MARC record by Elizabeth Phillips.

Collection Summary

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

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stanisław Kroczak papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2012.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical Note

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.

Indexing Terms

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.

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