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

Dominik Tatarka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The collection of the Slovak writer and publicist Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) contains unique correspondence, manuscripts and audio recordings illustrating life of this leading Czechoslovak writer, who had been critical to the communist regime since 1950s and became a “banned author” and dissident after 1968.

Ort:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1979
Besondere Beispiele:
- Tatarka, Dominik. Písačky. 1976–1978. Manuscript

Egon Bondy Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

This collection of the Czecho-Slovak poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and “guru” of the Czechoslovak underground, Egon Bondy (real name Zbyněk Fišer, 1930–2007), consists of sources related to the history of the Czechoslovak literary underground and the left-wing opposition to the communist regime.

Ort:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1984
Besondere Beispiele:
- Bondy, Egon. Buddha, 1968. Manuscript
- Bondy, Egon. The Invalid Siblings, 1974. Manuscript

Ellenpontok Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The Ellenpontok Ad-hoc Collection stored in the CNSAS Archives comprises, besides the records of the Securitate, the written evidences of the system-criticising activity of the samizdat editors and their struggle against the violation of human rights and ethnic discrimination. In addition to the life courses of Transylvanian Hungarian intellectuals monitored during the 1970s and 1980s, the collection offers insight into the working methods applied by the secret police in compliance with the policies of the Party, which envisaged the surveillance of individuals in opposition even after their emigration.

Ort:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Themen:
Besondere Beispiele:
- Petition from 14 July 1984 Addressed to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
- Samizdat issue of Ellenpontok (Counterpoints) No. 7, in Hungarian, September 1982