American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives

Resources (5)

• Aloisius Cardinal Muench (1889-1962)

  Papers, 1906–63, 93 linear feet; 62 boxes. Papal nuncio to Germany after World War II, and official American representative to act as liaison officer between the church and the military occupation government in Germany. Cardinal Muench was in charge of Catholic relief work in post-war Germany, aiding religious and lay refugees, deportees, etc. Papers are divided into sections by specific agencies and years: (a) Vatican Mission Records and Correspondence, 1945–49. Includes letters from Father Octavian Barlea, of the Rumanian mission, who writes about Soviet persecution of the church in Rumania and other Rumanian matters. (b) Papal Relief Commission, 1946–59. Contains correspondence concerning financial assistance for priests, seminarians, and the laity in the Soviet Zone of Germany and the church in East Germany. A Memorandum to His Eminence Cardinal Stritch from Fr. William E. McManus of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, 23 October 1950, discusses, in part, Soviet plans for Western Germany. Also, correspondence detailing the work of the War Relief Services in Germany. (c) Refugee Priests, 1946–59. Includes documents relating to Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, and Ukrainian priests in Germany. (d) Liaison Consultant Omgus, 1945–59. Includes war crimes documents and reports; reports on the treatment of German POWs in the USSR, pamphlets on the Moscow trials, Malmedy, Landsberg Prison, and the Katyn Massacre; reports and correspondence on Soviet compulsory labor service, Miss Karin Vogt's life in a Russian forced-labor camp, a Russian officer's threat against the bishop of Berlin to force cooperation, and Alfred Lummer, a Russian POW returnee who saw 1,400 Vincentian sisters forced to become miners in the Soviet Union; surveys of the church in Germany and its negotiations for the emigration of German-Russian refugees; and correspondence between Muench and the vicargeneral of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Germany. (e) Prints and Photographs, 1947–59. Includes pictures of a priest released from a Russian prison camp, Muench speaking with prisoners from a Russian concentration camp, and Albertus Magnus College, Seminary for Refugees. Restriction: Call or write for details. Finding aid available: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/muench.cfm

• Committee on Special War Activities of the National Catholic War Council

  Part of the NCWC/USCC Records, 1891-1957, 137 linear feet; 110 boxes, 35 reels of 16 mm microfilm. 1 folder contains correspondence regarding the Siberian War Prisoners Repatriation Fund, January 1920-July 1923. Finding aid available: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/NCWarCouncil.cfm

• John Brophy (1883-1963)

  Papers, 1917–63, 25 ft. Labor leader and union organizer, involved in the AFL-CIO. 1 folder applies to his 1927 trip to the USSR as part of the Trade Union Delegation that observed labor conditions in the Soviet Union. There is correspondence about the trip and about discussions among the delegates, plus numerous postcards from Moscow, Kharkov, and the Ukraine, most addressed to his wife, Anita Brophy. He writes about the people, living standards, religion, the Communist Party, Petrograd (?), Leningrad, Moscow, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Red Square, the arts, ballet, social activities, festivals, industry, factories, working conditions, workers' attitudes, Workers' Conventions, the Donets coal basin, coal mines, salt mines, and agriculture in the Ukraine. (NUCMC 66–401) Finding aid available: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/brophy.cfm

• Joseph Daniel Keenan (1896-1984)

  Papers, 1935–88, 20 linear feet; 39 boxes. Labor leader. He was involved in the War Production Board and in labor unionization for post-World War II Germany. Includes correspondence for 1945–47 and an oral history account (prepared in recent years) concerning German labor issues then and Soviet attitudes toward them. Unpublished inventory. Finding aid available: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/keenan.cfm

• Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924)

  Papers, 1871–1924, 171 linear feet; 268 boxes, 1 file cabinet. Labor leader and government official, U.S. commissioner-general of Immigration 1896–1912. Correspondence, reports, notes, writings, addresses, photos, and clippings. Includes material on Jewish, Armenian, Slovak, etc. immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th c. Most, but not all, of the collection has been microfilmed by the Microfilm Corporation of America; for this part there is a published finding aid, edited by J. A. Turcheneske, Jr. (NUCMC 61–1317). Online finding aid available: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/powderly.cfm