The Memory of Nations is an extensive online collection of the memories of witnesses, which is being developed throughout Europe by individuals, organizations, schools and institutions. It preserves and makes available the collections of memories of witnesses who have agreed that their testimony should serve to explore modern history and be publicly accessible. The collection includes testimonies of communism resistance, holocaust survival, artists of alternative culture and underground and many others.

Ort:
- Vodičkova 36, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 2008
Besondere Beispiele:
- Testimony of Vratislav Brabec, audio recording

Mihai Manea Private Poster Collection

By means of the concert posters that he kept, Mihai Manea’s collection documents the coordinates of alternative musical culture in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly the jazz, rock, and folk genres. In communist Romania, these Western-inspired genres were permitted in the public space with considerable reservations and suspicion, given that they contravened the “Theses of July 1971” by which Nicolae Ceauşescu had imposed the re-autochthonizing of culture and the arts.

Ort:
- București Strada Johann Gutenberg 19, Romania 030167
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1969
Besondere Beispiele:
- Unknown author. Concert poster, in Romanian, 10 May 1985
- Unknown author. Jazz festival poster, in Romanian, April 1969

Milan Knížák Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The personal collection of Milan Knížák (born 1940), a Czech artist, poet and founder of the group Aktual, contains unique books of the events organised by Aktual, one of the sources mapping the life of the provocative artist, the Czechoslovak underground and alternative art of the 1960s.

Ort:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1965
Besondere Beispiele:
- Knížák, Milan. Book on the "Aktual" group activities, 1965-1969. Manuscript

Museum of Romani Culture Collections

The Museum of Romani Culture in Brno contains unique materials on the life, history and culture of Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and map the social, political and cultural activities of the minority. This collection is closely focused on the Roma minority and is unique in the Czech Republic. The collections also include materials mapping the life of the Roma minority during the Communist regime and their emancipation efforts.

Ort:
- Bratislavská 67, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1991
Besondere Beispiele:
- Memorandum of the Union of Gypsies-Roma on Essential questions of Roma Issues, 1970
- Painting "The Devil (Communists) took the Gypsy violin" by Rudolf Dzurko

Mērija Grīnberga junior collection

The Mērija Grīnberga Jr (1909-1975) collection is a testimony to the rescue by museum employees of cultural values threatened by both the Second World War and by political change. It is also a testimony to the persecution and distrust of members of the 'old' Latvian intelligentsia in Soviet Latvia, despite their sometimes desperate attempts to accommodate the political demands of the regime.

Ort:
- Rīga Palasta iela 4, Latvia LV-1050
Themen:
- Alternative Lebensstile und Eigensinn im Alltag
- Überlebende von Verfolgungen in autoritären / totalitären Regimen
Gründungsdatum:
- 1909
Besondere Beispiele:
- Written account of Mērija Grīnberga to the State Control Ministry about circumstances of her firing from the Museum