Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, visits Hoover

August 28, 2007

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From left to right: Maciej Siekierski, curator of the East European Collection; Janusz Krupski, the Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression; Zbigniew Stanczyk, library specialist; and Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski, adviser to the minister.

Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, and his adviser review World War II documents from the Hoover Archives.

Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, and his adviser review World War II documents from the Hoover Archives.

On the left: Gulag release certificates of Polish prisoners. Poland Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji. On the right: pre-World War II personal documents of Poles deported to the Soviet Union. Poland Ambasada Soviet Union Collection.

A drawing by a Polish refugee child detailing Soviet troops dispersing people who wanted to say good-bye to their relatives being taken in freight cars to Siberia. Poland Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji.

Contents of the wallet of a Polish prisoner who died awaiting evacuation from the Soviet Union. Pre-World War II Polish money, photos, and Soviet rationing coupons. Poland Ambasada Soviet Union Collection.

A release certificate issued by Soviet Gulag authorities to a Polish inmate. Poland Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji.

A 1939 Soviet anti-Polish propaganda poster collected by the American journalist Arthur Waldo. Hoover Institution Poster Collection.

Janusz Krupski, minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression in Poland, and Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski, adviser to the minister, visited the Hoover Institution on August 27, 2007. Hoover staff members Maciej Siekierski and Zbigniew Stanczyk shared with them some of the historical materials relating to Poland held by the library and archives.

Janusz Krupski, the Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, visited the Hoover Institution on August 27, 2007.

Among Hoover's many notable holdings concerning Poland are the Wladyslaw Anders Collection, the records of the Polish Embassy in the Soviet Union, and the records of the Polish Ministry of Information and Documentation. These collections contain the fullest available documentation (including more than 30,000 original depositions by survivors) on the tragic fate of hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens in the Soviet Union: prisoners of war, labor camp inmates, and deportees.