Sklenarz-Bokota family papers, 1913-2010

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Summary

Title:
Sklenarz-Bokota family papers
Dates:
1913-2010
Creators:
Sklenarz-Bokota family, Bokota, Józef, 1897-1978, Bokota, Stanisław, 1928-, and Bokota, Krystyna Maria Sklenarz, 1933-2010
Abstract:
Memoirs, genealogical data, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to conditions in Poland during World War II and to immigration to the United States. Includes papers of Józef Bokota, his son Stanislaw Bokota, and Krystyna Maria Sklenarz Bokota, wife of Stanislaw Bokota.
Extent:
1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)
Language:
In Polish and English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sklenarz-Bokota family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes personal documents, photographs, and reminiscences of both Krystyna and Stanislaw. Additionally, the papers contain the photographs, documents, clippings, and memoirs of Józef Bokota.

Biographical / historical:

Polish-American family.

Krystyna M. Sklenarz and Stanislaw Bokota, who would become husband and wife, were both from middle-class families in southeast Poland when the war started in September of 1939. Their families were divided by the war, with some members living under German occupation, others under Soviet, and several able to escape to the West. Both children experienced the brutal conditions of being deported to Soviet Kazakhstan; Krystyna lost a younger sister to hunger and disease. In the end they were the lucky ones, surviving the horrors and able to leave the USSR in 1942 because of "amnesty" for Polish citizens and the evacuation of some of the survivors to Iran. They were both educated in the West, and eventually met and married in the United States. Krystyna, a psychiatrist, died in 2010; Stanislaw, a retired US Department of Commerce economist, lives in Indiana.

Stanislaw's father, Colonel Jozef Bokota, was a decorated cavalry veteran of the 1920 Polish-Soviet war, the September 1939 campaign, and the clandestine Home Army.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2011.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-03-02 09:19:21.489866

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Sklenarz-Bokota family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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