Inventory of the Inès Keller-Frick papers

Finding aid prepared by Kayla Anderson

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

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Title: Inès Keller-Frick papers

Date (inclusive): 1905-1999

Collection Number: 90024

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In English, French, Polish, and German

Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Memoirs, reports, clippings, journal articles, photographs, and printed matter relating to United Nations and Swiss relief work in Poland after World War II; the World War II Serbian resistance leader Draža Mihailovic and his trial and execution in Yugoslavia in 1946; and Swiss foreign relations. Includes memoirs of the Swiss diplomat Albert-Louis Natural.

Creator: Keller-Frick, Inès

Creator: Natural, Albert-Louis

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1990.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Inès Keller-Frick papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Swiss relief worker; secretary, Schweizer Spende.

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoirs, reports, clippings, journal articles, photographs, and printed matter relating to United Nations and Swiss relief work in Poland after World War II; the World War II Serbian resistance leader Draža Mihailovic and his trial and execution in Yugoslavia in 1946; and Swiss foreign relations. Includes memoirs of the Swiss diplomat Albert-Louis Natural.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements

World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia -- History -- Axis occupation, 1941-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland

International relief

World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief

Switzerland -- Foreign relations

Mihailović, Draža, 1893-1946

UNICEF

Schweizer Spende (Agency)

box 1, folder 1

Table of contents, undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes a table of contents created by Keller-Frick naming and outlining the intended arrangement for the documents.

box 1, folder 2

Introduction by Inès Keller, undated

Scope and Contents note

About Draža Mihailović; includes two article clippings.

box 1, folder 3

Biographical record of General Draža Mihailović (Draza Mihailovich), undated

Document 1

box 1, folder 4

"Patriot or Traitor: The Case of General Mihailovich," edited by Milorad M. Drachkovich, undated

Annexes

box 1, folder 5

1.1 Biographical record of Dr. Milorad Drachkovich undated

box 1, folder 6

1.2 Pilot David O'Connell, newspaper clipping, 1946 July 13

box 1, folder 7

1.3 T/Sgt. Gus T. Brown, Lt. John P. Devlin, ditto, undated

box 1, folder 8

1.4 Captain Walter Mansfield and Captain George Musulin, ditto (also see Annex 1.18, "The Mansfield Report") undated

box 1, folder 9

1.5 Staff Sergeant McKool, ditto, 1946 May 17

box 1, folder 10

1.6 Air Force Lieutenant, Richard L. Feldman, ditto undated

box 1, folder 11

1.7 Second Lieutenant, Michael Rajacich, Captain Nick Lalich, Navy Radio Tech, 1c Arthur Jiliian, undated

box 1, folder 12

1.8 Colonel McDowell's testimony, 1949

Scope and Contents note

Includes three newpaper clippings related to the testimony.

box 1, folder 13

1.9 Colonel Robert McDowell, article clipping, undated

box 1, folder 14

1.10 Captain Mansfield's testimony, ditto, 1946 May 14

box 1, folder 15

1.11 Colonel McDowell with General Mihailovich, ditto, 1946 July 15

box 1, folder 16

1.12 "King Peter Asks Truman to Help Save Mihailovich," article clipping, 1946 July 17

box 1, folder 17

1.13 "New York Jury Clears Mihailovich," article clipping, 1946 May 31

box 1, folder 18

1.14 Mihailovich's final plea, ditto, 1946 July 12

box 1, folder 19

1.15 "Death at Belgrade," ditto, 1946 July 20

box 1, folder 20

1.16 "Draja Rejected, Freedom Chance," ditto, 1946 July 19

box 1, folder 21

1.17 "How Reds Seized Stricken Mihailovich by Cowardly Ruse," ditto, 1946 July

box 1, folder 22

1.18 "The Mansfield Report," preface by Boris Todorovich, undated

Document 2

box 1, folder 23

Dr. Ivan Akaumovi, "Mihailovic prema nemackim dokumentima," "Mihailovich in German Documents: Abstract," undated

Annexes

box 1, folder 24

2.1 Photocopies of sources, references, books, newspapers and magazines undated

box 1, folder 25

2.2 Inès Keller, introduction to the quotations from each of the following works undated

box 1, folder 26

2.2.1 Kim Philby, Russian mole in British intelligence service, "My Silent War," undated

box 1, folder 27

2.2.2 Percy E. Schramm, "Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht 1939-1945," excerpts, undated

box 1, folder 28

2.2.3 "Wehrmachtsberichte 1933-1945," summary from book, undated

box 1, folder 29

2.3 Dr. Lazo M. Kostich, "The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia," undated

Document 3

box 1, folder 30

A comment on Mihailovich's restraint to fight the Germans by Mr. Jovan Trboyevic, ex-Lieutenant of the Royal Yugoslav Navy, parachuted into Yugoslavia in 1942 undated

Annexes

Scope and Contents note

The table of contents includes Annex 3.1.2, "Geneva Convention of August 12, 1949 on protection of military personnel;" however, the file is missing from the collection.

box 1, folder 31

3.1 Biographical record of Jovan Trboyevic, undated

box 1, folder 32

3.1.1 Geneva Convention of August 12, 1949, on prisoners of war, undated

box 1, folder 33

3.1.3 Protocols additional to Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, on protection of civilian populations, undated

box 1, folder 34

3.1.4 Geneva Convention of July 27, 1929, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, undated

box 1, folder 35

3.1.5 Convention de Genève du 6 juillet 1906 pour l'amèlioration du sort des blessés et malades dans les armées en campagne, undated

box 1, folder 35

3.1.6 Convention de Genève du 22 aout 1864 pour l'amélioration du sort des militaires blessés dans les armées en campagne, undated

Document 4

box 1, folder 36

Rewards promised by the German occupation forces for the capture of either Mihailovich or Tito: 100,000 Reichsmark each, undated

Document 5

box 1, folder 37

Letter from Hitler to Mussolini on February 16, 1943

Document 6

box 1, folder 38

Order of merit awarded to Mihailovich, undated

Document 7

box 1, folder 39

Nora Beloff, "Tito's Flawed Legacy," Hoover Institution, 1985

Annex

box 1, folder 40

7.1 Biographical record of Nora Beloff, undated

Document 8

box 1, folder 41

Evguenie Yourichitch, "Le procès Tito-Mihailovic" (photocopy under separate cover) 1950

Annex

box 1, folder 42

8.1 Biographical record of Eugence Yourichitch undated

Document 9

box 1, folder 43

Branko Lazitch, "La tragédie du General Mihailovic," Hoover Institution, 1946

Annex

box 1, folder 44

9.1 Biographical record of Branko Lazitch, undated

Document 10

Radomir Petrovic-Kent

box 1, folder 45

1) As former Aide de Camp to H.M. King Peter II of Yugoslavia: "From My 1954 Diary," an account of His Majesty's sorrow for giving in to Churchill, undated

box 1, folder 45

2) As former commander of a brigade under Mihailovich's order during the war: "Military and other memories" [See: Copies, page 150] undated

Annexes,

box 1, folder 46

10.1 Biographical record of Radomir Petrovic-Kent (Kent was his war alias), undated

box 1, folder 47

10.2 Photocopies of souvenirs undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes a picture of Commander Kent during the war, a dollar note signed by the American airmen he saved after an emergency landing, and legitimation of his command of a brigade.

Document 11

box 1, folder 48

"Last Words," by Boris Todorovich, introductory notice by Inès Keller, undated

Annexes,

box 1, folder 49

11.1 Authorization of reproduction of excerpts from "Last Words" from Ljubica Todorovich, 1989 December 12

box 1, folder 50

11.2 Excerpts from "Last Words," undated

box 1, folder 51

11.3 Biographical record of Boris Todorovich, undated

Document 12

box 1, folder 52

Jasper Rootham: "Miss Fire: The Chronicle of a British Mission to Mihailovich, 1943-1944," Hoover Library, 1946

Annexes

12.1 Biographical record of Jasper Rootham [See: Copies, page 179] undated

Document 13

box 1, folder 53

Agnes Chabrier: "Les pierres crient..." (photocopy of book under separate cover) undated

Document 14

box 1, folder 54

United States press clippings relative to the trial, sentence, and execution of General Drava Mihailovich, undated

Document 15

box 1, folder 55

Swiss press clippings on the case and trial of General Mihailovich, undated

Document 16

box 1, folder 56

"US Congressional Report: Proceedings and Debates: Commemorating 95th Anniversary of Mihailovich's Birth," 1988 March 29

Document 17/18

Poems by Milan Rakic

box 1, folder 57

17a. "The Abandoned Church," undated

box 1, folder 58

17b. "Napustena Crkva," undated

box 1, folder 59

18a. "Simonida," undated

box 1, folder 60

18b. "Simonida," undated

box 1, folder 61

Copies undated

Scope and Contents note

Contains a copy of every document listed in the table of contents, including Document 10 (part 2) and Annex 12.1, which were both missing from their original folders.

box 1, folder 62

Revue militaire suisse RMS 1990

box 1, folder 63

Récits, études et réflexions du temps que j'étais diplomate 1961-1963, volume I, Albert-Louis Natural, 1998 June

box 2, folder 1

Récits, études et réflexions du temps que j'étais diplomate 1964-1966, volume II, Albert-Louis Natural, 1998 June

box 2, folder 2

Récits, études et réflexions du temps que j'étais diplomate 1972-1975, volume III, Albert-Louis Natural, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes a compact disk copy of the publication.

box 2, folder 3

Mon séjour en Pologne 1948, Inès Keller-Frick, 1999

Scope and Contents note

Includes a typed essay describing his evening with General Bor-Komorowski, who was involved in the Warsaw Insurrection in 1948.

box 2, folder 4

Die Schweizer Spende, 1944-1948 : Polen : [allgemeiner Bericht über Polen], Gertrud Lutz, 1948

box 2, folder 5

"United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, History of the Mission to Poland," report from UNICEF, undated

box 2, folder 6

Kosovo, 1989-1991

Scope and Contents note

Includes a copy of the publication Kosovo 1389-1989, a list of institutions with the same copy, a table of contents, and a typed history abstract.

box 2, folder 7

Czeslawa Dopieralska undated

Language of Material: Polish.

Scope and Contents note

Includes a typed personal account of her experiences in World War II, photographs, and excerpts from her book.

box 2, folder 8

Nürnberg [Nuremberg] 1905-1908

Scope and Contents note

Includes a biography of Friedrich Trost and reproductions of his paintings, as well as photos and an informational booklet regarding Heiliggeistkirche, a church in Nuremberg. Photos depict the church before and after the devastation following World War II.

box 2, folder 9-10

Photographs, 1943-1948

Scope and Contents note

Photographs depict the destruction in Warsaw during and after World War II. The majority of the photos have titles written on the back in English describing the location and scene.