Deadline Diaries - Transsylvanian Monitor

For two years, starting in March 1987, Határ/idő/napló: Erdélyi Figyelő (Deadline Diaries: Transylvanian Monitor), was the only independent, Hungarian periodical founded solely to report on the hardships of misery-stricken Romania during the last years of Ceauşescu’s dictatorship. Nine issues of the small samizdat paper, edited in Budapest, were initially published and distributed as 150 photocopied editions, and later as 2,000 printed copies. The copies were distributed in Hungary, among Hungarian émigrés in the West, and also in Romania through activist channels in the grassroots movement ETE (Erdélyt Támogatók Egylete – Association for Aiding Transylvanians), registered in early 1990 as Transylvania Caritas (Transcar).

Ort:
- Budapest, Hungary
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1987
Besondere Beispiele:
- Homoród, Bálint [Béla Nóvé]. Kétség és remény közt: Erdélyről sokadszorra (Hopes and Doubts: Once Again on Transylvania), 1989. Book
- Varga, István. Pro Domo Dei, 1990. Book

Documents of György and Miklós Krassó (1956-1989)

The collection commemorates the life and historical documents collected by György Krassó, who was a significant figure of the Hungarian democratic opposition in the 1960-1980s. In his political dissident, Krassó was the founder of the Hungarian October Free Press Information Bureau in London. Its documents are a rich source on the late socialist period and the regime change in Hungary.

Ort:
- Budapest, Teve str. 3-5.
- Ungarn
Themen:
- Samisdat and Tamisdat
- demokratische Opposition
Gründungsdatum:
- 1995
Besondere Beispiele:
- Philipp, Tibor. Krassó György's performance: Renaming the Münnich Ferenc street, Budapest, 1989. Photo

Doina Cornea Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

Doina Cornea was a leading dissident in communist Romania, who started by criticising the educational and cultural policies of Ceaușescu’s regime and issuing some modest samizdat materials, and ended up as the driving force behind several collective actions against the arbitrary actions of Ceaușescu’s regime and the trigger of the most significant transnational network in defence of the Romanian villages menaced with destruction by the regime. Accordingly, the Doina Cornea Ad-Hoc Collection at CNSAS constitutes one of the largest collections of documents referring to one single individual and includes not only records created by the secret police while trying to counter her actions, but also materials confiscated as evidence of those actions.

Ort:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Themen:
Besondere Beispiele:

Doina Cornea Private Collection

The Doina Cornea Private Collection is an invaluable historical source for those researching the biography and especially the dissident activities of the person labelled by the Western mass media as the “emblematic figure” of the Romanian resistance to Ceauşescu’s dictatorship. This collection comprises manuscripts of her open letters of protest, her diary, samizdat translations, correspondence, drafts of her academic works, photos, paintings, video recordings, and her personal library. This private collection is by far one of the most significant and valuable collections reflecting the cultural opposition to the Romanian communist regime.

Ort:
- Cluj-Napoca Strada Alba Iulia 14, Romania 400000
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1958
Besondere Beispiele:
- Cornea, Doina. Stop the demolition of the Romanian villages (open letter), in Romanian, July 1988. Manuscript
- Securitate. Doina Cornea and the staff of the French Embassy in Bucharest, 1988. Photo

Dominican Book Institute

The collection contains samizdat editions of religious literature and hymnals distributed in the underground church in the period between 1950 and 1989. It consists of the private collections of several anonymous monks and nuns of the secretly organized Dominican Order and School Sisters of St. Francis in several places of Slovakia. The library contains a large number of literature written in exile. The Dominican Book Institute helps communities to type and catalogue books but it does not own these books, their owners are the friaries of the province of the Dominican Order.

Ort:
- Jánošíkovská 34, Slovakia 900 42
Themen:
- Samisdat and Tamisdat
- religiöser Aktivismus
Gründungsdatum:
- 1989
Besondere Beispiele:
- Biblické ženy. Postavy Starej zmluvy, s.n., S.I., samizdat, 1970