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Title: Julius Epstein Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1939-1975
Collection Number: 75063
Creator:
Epstein, Julius, 1901-
Collection Size: 194 manuscript boxes, 16 oversize boxes, 1 envelope (87.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, clippings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to World War II, communism, forced
repatriation of Russian prisoners to the Soviet Union following World War II, the Katyn forest massacre, unreported deaths
of
Soviet cosmonauts, and the efforts of J. Epstein to obtain restricted government
documents on these subjects.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Julius Epstein papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1975.
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 the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Astronauts--Soviet Union.
Communism.
Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940.
Official secrets--United States.
Prisoners of war.
Security classification (Government documents)--United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
United States--Foreign relations.
| 1901 | Born, Vienna, Austria
Studied economics and political science at the universities of Jena and Leipzig Free-lance journalist |
| 1939 | Came to the United States |
| 1941-1945 | Worked for the Office of War Information
Correspondent for several European newspapers |
| 1963 | Research Associate, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace |
| 1972 | Professor of International Affairs, Lincoln University, San Francisco |
| 1974 | Author, Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation |
| 1975 | Died, Menlo Park, California |