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Title: Edward B. Marks papers
Dates: 1932-2005
Collection Number: 2006C55
Creator: Marks, Edward B.
Collection Size:
6 manuscript boxes
(2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs and other writings, correspondence, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to international assistance
to refugees from World War II to the 1980s.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Edward B. Marks Papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2006.
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 Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Edward B. Marks was an American refugee worker who worked as an official with the U.S. War Relocation Authority, the International
Refugee Organization, and the International Organization for Migration, as well as the U.S. Committee for Refugees, the U.S.
Agency for International Development, and UNICEF from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains materials relating to international assistance to refugees from World War II through the 1980s, documentation on
the various refugee organizations Marks worked for or with over the same years, photographs documenting the United States
Agency for International Development and the United Nations. Printed matter, writings and speeches document refugee experiences
from all over the world, the International Year of the Child in 1979, the United Nations, and Marks' memoirs.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Refugees.
International relief.
United States. War Relocation Authority.
International Refugee Organization.
International Organization for Migration.
U.S. Committee for Refugees.
United States. Agency for International Development.
UNICEF.