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In 2012 and 2014, three exhibitions were held with the title “Göncz Works” in libraries in Budapest and Szeged. The works on display were part of the ex-president’s oeuvre as an author and translator, put on exhibit on the occasion of his 90^th birthday and the celebration of his debut as a literary translator 50 years earlier.
The exhibition sites were the Ervin Szabó Budapest Capital Library (2012), the University Library of Szeged (2012), and the National Foreign Language Library of Budapest (2014).
As part of these occasions, a detailed bibliography of Göncz’s works was also prepared by the National Széchényi Library, with dozens of titles of his essays, novels, and plays translated from foreign languages and more than 250 titles of contemporary English and American authors whose works he translated into Hungarian.

In 2012, with the cooperation with the Charles University in Prague, the Oral History Archive of KARTA Foundation and History Meeting House obtained the access to the largest Shoah Archive in the world - the Visual History Archive of the survivors from the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The Archive, also called "The Spielberg Archive", was established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg consists of 52 000 oral and video testimonies (120 000 hours of recordings) of Holocaust survivors and witnesses from all over the world (56 countries and 32 languages). In the VHA, approximately 1500 interviews are in Polish.

Solidaritet Norge-Polen was the biggest organisation intended to support Polish democratic movement in Western Europe between 1981-1989. Acquisition of their documents and items (gadgets like pens and pins) motivated the operators to present in the exhibition the international support for Polish changes.
Other foreign items came from Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Belgium or France.