Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- International Rescue Committee
- Abstract:
- Case files, correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, personnel records, and statistics, relating to resettlement of refugees and displaced persons, and especially to refugees from Europe after World War II, from the post-World War II communist countries of Eastern Europe, from Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, from Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and from Indochina after the end of the Vietnamese War in 1975.
- Extent:
- 3803 manuscript boxes (1585.7 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], International Rescue Committee Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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Private international organization for aid to refugees.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1982 with numerous subsequent additions.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Users must sign a use agreement for access to the collection. Box FH13 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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:
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Boxes 2400-2405 may not be used without written permission of the International Rescue Committee. For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], International Rescue Committee Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563