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Goldblat, Jozef
Sub-Fonds · 1954-2011
Part of Private Archives

This sub-fonds consists of 52 boxes and 78 folders. There are some papers about the personnal life of Jozef Goldblat, some other about the lectures he was doing and a lot about his last books: Arms Control, A New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements. There are some IT Supports like USB Key, diskettes and CD-ROM. The archives also recovered books that belonged to Jozef Goldblat.The finding follow this organization.

 Goldblat, Jozef
Aghnides, Thanassis
Aghnides, Thanassis
Sub-Fonds · 1907-1963
Part of Private Archives

The collection contains items concerning Mr. Aghnides's career with the League of Nations, namely his activities with the Press Bureau of the Legation of Greece in London, the Minorities Section, the Disarmament Section, the Political Section (1918-1930). It includes also Aghnides' mission and activities as Director of the Disarmament Commission and as Under Secretary-General.

There are 4 black and white photos about Thanassis Aghnides, Salter James Arthur and Antoine Faroustou.

There are books.

 Aghnides, Thanassis
Pelt, Adrianus
Sub-Fonds · 1920-1970
Part of Private Archives

One of the organized and listed boxes concerns Mr. Pelt's League of Nations career (1928-38), and the other one his activities with the United Nations (1945-1946).

Some items concern his activity as Commissioner of the United Nations in Libya, 1952-57.

Since the papers were organized, other transfers have taken place, two of which contain typescripts and documentation for his book, "Libyan independence and the United Nations: a case of planned decolonization" (published for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1970).

 Pelt, Adrianus (1892-1981)
Claparède, René
Sub-Fonds · 1907-1926
Part of Private Archives

The main body of the collection consists of material in connection to the International Office for the Defense of Indigenous People ("Bureau international pour la défense des indigènes").

Three main topics can be distinguished.

  • The first one concerns the question of forced labour (Putumayo, West Africa),
  • the second refers to the Montenegro problem in the wake of the First World War
  • and the third one consists of material on Belgian Congo.

The collection consists of pamphlets and reports, newspaper clippings and extensive correspondence (Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, Union of Democratic Control, etc.).

 Claparède, René
Kostelecký, Václav
Kostelecký, Václav
Sub-Fonds · 1946-2007
Part of Private Archives

The collection primarily contains items concerning Mr. Kostelecký's career with the United Nations, namely his activities with the United Nations Appeal for Children (UNAC) and his work with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), including his work on as a consultant on the official history of UNECE: “Three Decades of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe” (E/ECE/962).

There is also correspondence between Kostelecký and Myrdal about the ECE history project, including the preparatory work for Kostelecky's book “The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: The Beginning of a History”. This material includes records of interviews with figures prominent in the UNECE, including Gunnar Myrdal, Walt Rostow, and Evgeny Chossudovsky, among others.

The collection also contains correspondence with the Kostelecký and Myrdal families and the Swedish Labour Movement Library and Archives about donations of Kostelecký and Myrdal's Papers, as well as Kostelecky’s publications and several books from his personal library.

There are numerous photos, four framed portaits, and several film negatives in the collection, including portraits of Kostelecky and other United Nations staff members, as well as more personal photos of the Kostelecky and Myrdal families. Primarily, however, there are photos relating to the work of the UNECE. In total, there are over 300 photographs in the collection.

 Kostelecky, Vaclav