István Kemény’s collection (mostly recorded interviews) concerns sociological research on the Roma from 1971. The project analysed the problems faced by the Roma in Hungary, which was a taboo topic at the time, since it was linked to another, perhaps even more important taboo, namely poverty, which officially did not exist, but which was very real and particularly dire among many Roma communities.
The Kiáltó Szó – Balázs Sándor Private Collection in Cluj-Napoca contains the second Transylvanian Hungarian samizdat magazine issued under Ceaușescu’s regime and offers insight into the democratic resistance and the human rights struggle of the time. At the same time the samizdat is an example of the pre-1989 Hungarian–Romanian rapprochement, in which the idea of shared destiny secured a common ground for minorities and the majority alike.