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Title: Eduards Kraucs papers
Dates: 1945-1977
Collection Number: 78028
Creator: Kraucs, Eduards, 1898-
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box, 1 envelope, 1 album box, 474 filmstrips, 3 motion picture film reels
(2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Autobiographical sketch, scrapbook, motion picture film, and photographs, relating primarily to Latvian refugees in Germany
and the United States. Includes translations.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Latvian
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Eduards Kraucs papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1978.
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 online catalog is larger than the number of
boxes listed in this finding aid.
A Latvian-American photographer and television cameraman, Eduards Kraucs was born in Riga on August 21, 1898. During World
War I his family was evacuated to Moscow, where he graduated from high school and the Geological Institute. In 1921 Kraucs
returned to Latvia, where he enlisted in the army as a volunteer and began taking photographs and motion picture footage for
Latvian news organizations. When Russians and later Germans occupied Latvia, his filming was used by both organizations. In
the late 1940s, Kraucs and his wife worked as farm laborers in Displaced Persons camps in Hochfeld, near Augsburg, West Germany,
where he filmed the inhabitants of the camp. In 1948 he made a film for the International Refugees Organization on the screening
and emmigration of refugees to the U.S. for CBS. In 1950, the Kraucs immigrated to the U.S., settling in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, where Kraucs worked for the Alexander Film Company, later acquired by CBS and renamed KKTV-11. Kraucs worked for
KKTV-11 for 26 years, arranging for many Latvian broadcasts and interviews through the 1960s and 1970s.
See also the biographical sketch in box 1.
Scope and Content of Collection
Autobiographical sketch, scrapbook, motion picture film, and photographs, relating primarily to Latvian refugees in Germany
and the United States. Includes translations.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Latvians--Germany.
Latvians--United States.
Refugees.
Motion pictures.