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Oral History Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Materials

Bergin (Caitlin) interviews

     1997

Sound recordings of interviews of Polish Solidarność leaders relating to the Solidarność movement.

Csejtey (Vitez Bela) interview transcript

     1974

Relates to the aerial bombing of Kassa, Hungary, on June 26, 1941. Includes translation and biographical data. 

Djordjevich (Dusan J.) interview transcripts

     1991

Interviews of Serbian political leaders and intellectuals, including Milovan Djilas, relating to political conditions in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and to the Yugoslav civil war.

Eastern European Oral History Project interviews

     1991-2001

Sound recordings of interviews of Polish, Romanian, and other Eastern European political leaders, writers and others, and Western experts on Eastern Europe, relating to political conditions in Poland, Romania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Includes selected transcripts of interviews and related written matter. Project sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Interviews conducted by Laura Cosovanu, staff member of the Hoover Institution and others.

Gawlikowski (Leszek) interviews

     2001-2003

Sound recordings of interviews of former Radio Free Europe Polish Service employees relating to Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Poland. Also includes selected Radio Free Europe broadcast recordings.

Gluchowski (Krzysztof) interviews

     1996-2000

Video tapes and transcripts of interviews of Polish intellectuals, relating to intellectual life and cultural conditions in Poland. Portions of the interviews were broadcast on Polish television, and portions were published in Rozmowy na koniec wieku (Kraków, 1997-2001).

Kresy-Siberia Foundation collection

     2010-2013

Video recordings of interviews of Polish survivors of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, relating to deportations from Poland during World War II and to conditions in Soviet forced labor camps. Includes some copies of textual documents. Interviews conducted by the Kresy-Siberia Foundation.

Lehnert (Marek) papers

     1984-1996

Dispatches and sound recordings, relating to political conditions in Poland and to Vatican relations with Poland.

Liuba (Justin) papers

     1953-2010

Correspondence, writings, memoranda, printed matter, and sound recording cassettes, relating to Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Romania, and to political conditions in Romania, Romanian history, and Romanian émigré affairs. Includes interviews conducted by Justin Liuba for Radio Free Europe broadcasts.

Michael I, King of Romania interview

     1982

Relates to the Romanian monarchy. Interview conducted by Paul D. Quinlan.

Morawski (Jerzy) interview transcript

     1995

Relates to political conditions in Poland and to Polish foreign relations. Photocopy.

Nagorski (Andrew) interview recordings

     1976-2008

Interviews of political leaders, dissidents and others, mainly relating to political and social conditions in Poland, other countries of Eastern Europe, and post-Soviet Russia.

Starewicz (Artur) interview transcript

     1996

Relates to political conditions in Poland and to Polish foreign relations. Photocopy.

Terra (Jonathan) interviews

     1992-2002

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews of Polish and Czech politicians and business and labor leaders, relating to political and economic conditions, and to privatization, in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Tymowski (Andrzej W.) interview transcripts

     1987-1991

Interviews with activists in KOR, Solidarnosc, and other Polish dissident movements of the 1970s and 1980s, with activists in Czechoslovak and East German dissident movements of the same period, and with observers of these movements, relating to the history of the movements, and to the social dynamics of participation in them.