Fortepan is an extensive online collection of photos documenting the 20^th century until 1990. All the photos fall under creative commons license. Started as a private non-profit initiative, it grew out of a core collection of 5,000 images, and it has been dynamically expanding as both institutions and private individuals have donated photos. Images are largely about scenes of life in Hungary, but there is a growing number of photos that were taken in other countries. Fortepan is the largest free-use digital photo collection covering, among other things, cultural opposition under communism in Eastern Europe. Underground music scenes, alternative theatre and film, grey zone cultural activities, and the democratic and populist opposition are all topics covered in the collection.

Ort:
- Budapest Mária tér 4, Hungary 1011
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 2010
Besondere Beispiele:

Gediminas Ilgūnas Collection

Gediminas Ilgūnas was a well-known Lithuanian writer, journalist, ethnographer and traveller. In the 1950s, he was accused of anti-Soviet activity and imprisoned. On being released from prison, he and his close friends started to organise ethnographic expeditions, collecting material about important personalities in Lithuanian national history. The collection holds various manuscripts, including documents relating to his activities in the Sąjūdis movement and his political activities as a member of the Supreme Council, short memories about the Stalinist period, and material collected for a biography of Vincas Pietaris. The collection shows the actions of a Soviet-period cultural activist who tried to collect and preserve Lithuania's past culture.

Ort:
- 10102 Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 19 , Lithuania
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1988
Besondere Beispiele:
- Manuscript of the Biography of Vincas Pietaris

Illegal Groups in Kosovo (1945 - 1990) collection

This private collection addresses the topic of illegal groups operating in Kosovo between 1945 and 1990. The collection contains documents, court decisions, interviews (transcribed and in audio file format) as well as relevant literature on the topic gathered by Sabile Keçmezi-Basha, illustrating a half-century of resistance against the Yugoslav political system.

Ort:
- Bregu i Diellit, Prishtinë
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1980
Besondere Beispiele:
- Judicial process against the illegal group "Prizren League" in 1950

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

Prometheus Collection

Located at the Józef Piłsudski Institute in London, the Prometheus Collection contains records related to the Promethean movement, the Polish-led alliance of nationalist movements of non-Russian nations and ethnic groups that inhabited the Soviet Union. The origins of the movement go back to Prometheism, Józef Piłsudski's project of weakening imperial and later Bolshevik Russia by supporting the struggle for independence of the peoples of the Baltic, Black and Caspian Sea regions. The Promethean movement encompassed mostly representatives of Ukrainians, Kuban Cossacks, Georgians, Azeris, and north Caucasus nations and relied on the support of the Polish military. After World War II, the movement continued in exile under the leadership of Polish émigrés, mostly Piłsudski's followers. The collection consists of twelve files and contains memoranda, correspondence, newsletters, and photographs of various Promethean activists.

Ort:
- London, United Kingdom
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1969
Besondere Beispiele:
- Photographs of Promethean leaders