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This collection was donated by David Van Hoogstraten, accession 2011-035.
Jan S. F. van Hoogstraten was born on May 22, 1922 in the Netherlands, and attended the Christian Lyceum in Zutphen from 1938-1944 and the University of Leiden for law studies from 1945-1948. From 1946 he was active in the area of war and refugee relief, and was a co-founder of both the University Asylum Fund in the Netherlands (1946-1948) and the Dutch Office for Foreign Student Relations (1946), and also worked with World Student Relief (1946-1948) and as a Field Representative for Refugee Students, World University Service West Germany and Trieste (1948-1951). From 1951-1953, Hoogstraten worked as a Resettlement Officer with the Church World Service, primarily for refugees from the USSR, before emigrating to the United States in September 1953. From 1954-1976, Hoogstraten worked for the Church World Service in New York first as a Resettlement Officer, and later as Director of the Africa Program, Director for the Material Aid Program, and Director for Immigration and Refugee Program. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Hoogstraten held positions at the Tolstoy Foundation, the International Human Assistance Program, and the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) NY, before becoming Chief of Mission for the ICM Bonn in Germany, in 1980. Hoogstraten worked for the ICM in various capacities through at least 1992. Hoogstraten died on October 25, 2011 in Bronxville, NY at age 89.
William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library Archives
Item description, WAB: Jan van Hoogstraten papers, box #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Materials were minimally processed: sensitive material was weeded, and original order was maintained when possible. The finding aid, including a box-level inventory and series-level description, was created by Leah Edelman with assistance from Matthew Baker in 2024.
This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, photographs, publications and reports, travel materials, and other materials largely documenting Hoogstraten's work with and on behalf of refugees, especially in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia, and with organizations including the National Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Church World Service.
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This collection is arranged in original order.
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Correspondence 1950s-1970s; typescripts on onionskin, subjects include refugees, "redefection" (forced migration of Soviet citizens from Western Europe after WW2), African refugees, "Tu apse affaire," Tibet 1950-1960, Angolan refugees in Zaire 1960s, American Committee on Africa, Madagascar
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Correspondence and other documents, subjects include: Central African Republic; National Council of Churches documents, agendas, and correspondence; personal correspondence late 1960s-1970s; refugees (Tibet, Vietnam); post-WW2 Russians
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Hungarian parolees (1956) correspondence, Hungarian and Yugoslavian refugees, World Council of Churches and World Student Relief administrative materials including 1950s meetings and correspondence, Intergovernmental Committee for Migration, reports and publications on Africa, 1950s refugee resettlement, photos, Church World Service material, travel itineraries and schedules
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Personal correspondence; Tibet: correspondence, files, publications, ephemera, rare pamphlets regarding refugees and relief
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Correspondence and other files, subjects include: Nigeria/Biafra, International Organization for Migration (IOM), photos, Church World Service (CWS)