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Box 1

Autobiographical sketch with translation, 1977

Box 1

Scrapbook, undated

Box 1

Unidentified DVDr, undated

Box 1

Photographic negatives, undated

78028 - 10.A-V

Photographs: 2 prints of Latvian children and 10 prints of Bavarian Alps in West Germany, undated

78028 - Album shelf

Photograph album documenting the Kraucs' journey from refugee camps in Germany to the U.S. through New York city, Chicago, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and settling in Colorado Springs, Colorado, circa 1950

Film shelf

Motion picture films, undated

Scope and Content Note

The film materials document the lives of Latvian refugees from 1946 to 1950. Life at the refugee camp in Augsburg, Germany was filmed by the order of the International Refugee Organization (IRO). The collection also includes the Kraucs family's travel films of the United States of America after they relocated to the U.S., including footage of the mountains in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. Titles taken directly from labels on canisters. For a more detailed description, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

Access Information

The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.

Film shelf

Film Can No. 1, (Colored) Arizona (Indian dance), Colorado (Nature scenes), Wyoming (Yellowstone), 700 ft., 16mm film

Film shelf

Film Can No. 2, Departure of Displaced Persons to the U.S.A., Demonstration against forceful repatriation, and other from 1947, 300 ft., 16mm film

Film shelf

Film Can No. 3, Colored film and Black and White - Pacific Ocean, 750 ft., 16mm film

Film shelf

Still image negatives (filmstrips), undated

Scope and Content Note

Seventy five rolls of still image negatives, containing approximately 2500 photographs document the lives of Latvian refugees from 1946 to 1950, life at the refugee camp in Augsburg, Germany filmed by the order of the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and the Kraucs family's travel film of the western U.S. after they relocated, including footage of the mountains in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. For a more detailed description, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

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