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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Lucjan Krause Warsaw Uprising postcards
Creator:
Krause, Lucjan,
1928-
Identifier/Call Number: 6212
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
1 box
Date: 2018
Abstract: A collection of approximately 75
postcards and handmade cards sent from schoolchildren in Poland to Lucjan Krause
(1928-2022), a member of the Polish underground resistance who fought in the Warsaw Uprising
(1944). The cards, mostly written by Polish schoolchildren in 2018, express gratitude for
Krause's wartime sacrifice and heroism. The cards in this collection were designed and
delivered as part of a Polish campaign--"BohaterON"--to commemorate and honor the
participants of the Warsaw Uprising and promote the history of Poland in the 20th
century.
Language of Material:
Polish .
Container: 1
Lucjan Krause (1928-2022) was a Polish physicist, professor emeritus at the University of
Windsor in Canada, and a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising (1944). Catherine Quinlan, Dean of
the USC Libraries, is Lucjan Krause's daughter.
A collection of approximately 75 postcards and handmade cards sent from schoolchildren in
Poland to Lucjan Krause (1928-2022), a member of the Polish underground resistance who
fought in the Warsaw Uprising (1944). The cards, mostly written by Polish schoolchildren in
2018, express gratitude for Krause's wartime sacrifice and heroism. The cards in this
collection were designed and delivered as part of a Polish campaign--"BohaterON"--to
commemorate and honor the participants of the Warsaw Uprising and promote the history of
Poland in the 20th century.
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obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Lucjan Krause Warsaw Uprising postcards, Collection no.
6212, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Catherine Quinlan, June 30, 2020 and July 29, 2022.
Sophie Lesinska, Head, Doheny Memorial Library, created a file of presentation slides (see
the digital object linked to this finding aid) with images of some of the postcards in the
collection, along with supplemental information and Polish to English translations.
Lucjan Krause's autobiography,
From the Vistula to the Canadian
Great Lakes: A Life's Journey
, was donated to the USC Libraries as part of the
acquisition of the Lucjan Krause Warsaw Uprising postcards. See the bibliographic record for
Krause's autobiography in WorldCat for access to this work.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
School children -- Poland -- 21st century -- Archival
resources
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944 -- Archival
resources
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Archival
resources
Commemorative card
Commemoratives
Postcards
Krause, Lucjan, 1928- --
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