Jan Karski Papers

Correspondence, memoranda, government documents, bulletins, reports, studies, speeches and writings, printed matter, photographs, clippings, newspapers, periodicals, sound recordings, videotape cassettes, and microfilm, relating to events and conditions in Poland during World War II, the German and Soviet occupations of Poland, treatment of the Jews in Poland during the German occupation, and operations of the Polish underground movement during World War II. Includes microfilm copies of Polish underground publications. Of particular importance are 26 reels of microfilm of Polish underground publications during the German occupation as well as a set of 750 photographs and a collection of reports, mostly in Polish. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Hoover+Institution http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf187001bd Liaison officer and courier of the Polish government-in-exile to the Polish underground, 1939-1943; author, Story of a Secret State (1944). Boxes 1-34 also available on microfilm (24 reels).