Jan van Hoogstraten papers, circa 1950 -- 2003
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Bib ID:
- 15324088 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Hoogstraten, Jan Samuel Francois van
- Repository:
- Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
- Physical Description:
- 5 Linear Feet (5 linear feet; 5 record cartons)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
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This collection is open for research.
The following boxes are located offsite: Box 1-5. Please note that requests for use of boxes held in offsite storage must be made three business days in advance.
Description
Scope and Contents
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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Jan van Hoogstraten papers, circa 1950 -- 2003
This series 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.
Burke Library record group:
William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library Archives
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in one series in original order.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
The following boxes are located offsite: Box 1-5. Please note that requests for use of boxes held in offsite storage must be made three business days in advance.
Conditions Governing Use
Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Information concerning copyright, fair use, and reproduction requests can be consulted at Columbia's Copyright Advisory Office.
Preferred Citation
Item description, WAB: Jan van Hoogstraten papers, box #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by David Van Hoogstraten, accession 2011-035.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Processing Information
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
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