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Drawn in Silence: Hoover Acquires the Smuggled Sketchbooks of Iranian Kurdish Cartoonist Iraj Varzandeh

Historic satirical drawings made between 1967 and 1971 survived censorship, imprisonment, two wars, and decades of concealment before leaving Iran wrapped in clothing inside garbage bags to pass unnoticed through searches.

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Papers Of Former Nuremberg Trial Translator Come To Hoover

Hildy Jarman was a multilingual educator who survived the London Blitz and served as a translator at the Nuremberg war trials before teaching at Palo Alto's Castilleja School for over two decades. Her collection — discovered in a travel-worn suitcase — includes rare correspondence with U.S. Army generals and documentation of war crimes investigations, offering a window into the role of women who worked behind the scenes of postwar justice.

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Hoover And Prague Partner To Digitize World's Largest Russian Diaspora Press Collection

As part of the Library & Archives’ Russia Abroad Digital Collection, the Czech Republic’s Slavonic Library will contribute nearly 1,700 publications chronicling émigré life across dozens of countries following the 1917 Russian Revolution. For the first time, these print records are being united digitally on Hoover's open-access platform, transforming access for scholars studying displacement, political movements, and cultural preservation in the twentieth century.

The Ippei Nomoto (Keizō Norimoto) Papers: A Cornerstone Of Japanese American Intellectual And Community History

This collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and rare Tule Lake publications illuminates the intellectual networks and contested loyalties that shaped Japanese American identity across four decades of the twentieth century.

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Hoover Acquires Materials Related to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the History of Modern and Contemporary Tibet

The newly acquired Li Jianglin Papers contain hundreds of hours of intimate interviews, personal correspondence, and artifacts given by His Holiness himself, documenting two decades of fieldwork among Tibetan communities in exile.

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Hoover Acquires Collection of Aaron Arthur Rosen

Learn more about the life and legacy of Aaron Arthur Rosen, United States Army Signal Corps photographer (1919–1995) whose wartime service in Iran and India placed him at some of the most pivotal moments of World War II, including the 1943 Tehran Conference.