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Historical Note
Title: International Rescue Committee records
Date (inclusive): 1946-1989
Collection Number: 82033
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3803 manuscript boxes
(1585.7 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
International Rescue Committee
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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.
Use
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.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1982 with numerous subsequent additions.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], International Rescue Committee Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Historical Note
Private international organization for aid to refugees.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees
Refugees
International relief
Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959