Oral History Archives (OHA) in 1956 Institute

A small group of devoted researchers began to do interviews in 1981 with people who had been active in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The aim of people who did the interviews was to reveal, by giving people chances to share personal memories, the real story of this decisive set of events, which were taboo under the Kádár regime, which had violently suppressed the revolution and which was eager to make up for its lack legitimacy in the eyes of the population by spreading false propaganda. These early interviews later served as the core collection of the Oral History Archives, which was founded in Budapest in 1985.

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Lokalizacja:
- Budapest Dohány utca 74, Hungary 1074
Zagadnienia:
Data utworzenia:
- 1985
Wyróżnione obiekty :
- Oral history interview with András Hegedűs B.
- Oral history interview with Jenő Széll

Oral History Collection at CNSAS

The Oral History Collection at CNSAS is a unique collection of this kind as it includes only interviews with individuals who are the subjects of personal files in the CNSAS Archives, and who after studying these personal files created by the Securitate agreed to narrate their own experience of entanglement with the secret police. The interviewees include not only individuals who were under surveillance and thus victims of the Securitate, but also individuals who collaborated with the secret police to provide information on others: family, friends, and colleagues. Both types of interviews represent the response of the interviewees to the narrative created about them by the Securitate.

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Lokalizacja:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Zagadnienia:
Data utworzenia:
- 2010
Wyróżnione obiekty :
- Interview with Dinu Zamfirescu, July 2010, Bucharest
- Interview with Nicolae Covaci, 5 May 2009, Bucharest

Prison on Lonskogo Street

The National Museum-Memorial to the Victims of Occupation “Prison on Lonskogo Street” has a small, but growing, archival collection. A detention facility used by the Polish police, the Nazi and Soviet occupational regimes, and lastly the KGB, this museum-memorial has a storied past. The building was used by regional state security services (SBU) as a prison until 1996. After the local community caught wind of a plan to allow developers to build on the site in 2006, activists mobilized to transform the prison into a site commemorating the thousands of prisoners executed by the NKVD in 1941 as the Red Army fled from advancing Nazi forces, and those incarcerated here in the decades that followed.

Curators have amassed 2,000 items since the museum’s opening in 2009. In addition to World War II propaganda from Nazi and Soviet forces, it holds the personal belongings of political prisoners and detainees—letters, personal documents, and samizdat publications used to prosecute dissidents, artists, and human rights activists in Lviv and its surrounding environs in the 1960s and 1970s. The latter is an ad hoc collection of about 50 items described in the rest of this entry, which includes embroidery, rosaries made out of bread, and other materials created by prisoners serving out lengthy sentences in Siberian labour camps under Brezhnev. Situated within the larger context of the museum-memorial’s holdings, these materials about Lviv’s dissidents is important for understanding the Soviet Union’s treatment of its most intransigent opponents well into the Brezhnev era.

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Lokalizacja:
- L'viv Stepana Bandery Street 1, Ukraine
- Lviv, Ukraine
Zagadnienia:
Data utworzenia:
- 2009
Wyróżnione obiekty :

Resistance of Turkish Minority in Bulgaria

The collection was established in the period from 2010 to 2016. It includes personal memories and materials of members of the Turkish minority of Bulgaria, who today live in different countries, most of them in Turkey. The collection sheds light on the life of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria and their responses to the contradictory politics, in long periods - discriminatory and assimilatory, of the socialist state.

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Lokalizacja:
- Bursa , Turkey
Zagadnienia:
Data utworzenia:
- 2010
Wyróżnione obiekty :
- Secretly taken photo from the forced labour camp in Belene
- Video interview with Embiya Çavuş

Revolution of 1989 in Timișoara - Private Photograph Collection

The Lucian Ionică private collection is one of the few collections of snapshots taken during the tensest and most feverish days of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 in the city of Timişoara, the place where the popular revolt against the communist dictatorship first broke out. The photographic documents in this collection preserve the memory both of the dramatic moments before the change of regime and of the days immediately after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, when sudden freedom of expression produced moments no less significant for the recent history of Romania.

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Lokalizacja:
- Timișoara Bulevardul Vasile Pârvan 4, Romania
Zagadnienia:
Data utworzenia:
- 1989
Wyróżnione obiekty :
- Ionică, Lucian. Revolution of 1989 - Living statue, Timișoara, December 1989. Photo
- Ionică, Lucian. Wounded children, Timișoara, 1989. Photo