Interviews about Jewish identity in the 1980s

Ferenc Erős’s interview collection includes in-depth interviews with second-generation Holocaust survivors. This project was one of the first which seeks to revive suppressed memories of the Holocaust and the effects of the psychological strategies used to grapple with these memories and the ways in which trauma are transmitted within families.

Ort:
- Budapest Arany János utca 32, Hungary 1051
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 2012
Besondere Beispiele:
- Interview No. 003 about the Jewish identity

Jan Zahradníček Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The Jan Zahradníček Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature is an important resource documenting the literary and Catholic opposition to the communist regime in post-war Czechoslovakia. It includes Jan Zahradníčekʼs poetry manuscripts, written illegally in the 1950s, in Pankrác Prison.

Ort:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1935
Besondere Beispiele:
- Zahradníček, Jan. The Last Rose, 1953/1954. Manuscript

Jaromír and Dolores Šavrda Collection

The Jaromír and Dolores Šavrda Collection consists mostly of materials documenting the life and work of Jaromír Šavrda (1933–1988), a Czech journalist, writer, political prisoner and significant representative of dissent in Ostrava. Parts of the collection are, for example, Jaromír Šavrda’s biographical documents, his literary work including poetry written in prison, samizdat editions of his works as well as works written by other authors, manuscripts and typescripts of books and magazines, materials documenting his activities in dissent and his correspondence.

Ort:
- Špálova 19, 702 19 Ostrava - Přívoz, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 2012
Besondere Beispiele:
- Václav Havel at the tomb of Jaromír Šavrda, Ostrava, 1990. Photo
- Šavrda, Jaromír. The Prisoner No. 1260, 1982. Manuscript

Knuts Skujenieks collection

Knuts Skujenieks (b. 1936) is a Latvian poet, a dissident who was sentenced in 1962 to seven years in prison for anti-Soviet activities. The collection holds manuscripts from all his creative life, but the most powerful are the manuscripts he created during his imprisonment: poems and other literary texts, correspondence with his wife and colleagues, and many other documents that reflect the development of his poetic language and political consciousness.

Ort:
- Rīga Mūkusalas iela, Latvia 1048
Themen:
- Literatur und Literaturkritik
- Überlebende von Verfolgungen in autoritären / totalitären Regimen
Gründungsdatum:
- 1963
Besondere Beispiele:
- "Friends, comrades, and colleagues!" Open letter, written in January 1965 in Mordovia.
- Manuscript of poetry book "Seed in Snow" written in imprisonment in Mordovia

Krunoslav Draganović Collection on World War II and Post-war Victims

The Krunoslav Draganović Collection on World War II and Post-war Victims is an archive collection whose original collector was the priest Krunoslav Draganović, who, relying primarily on the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses, planned to publish a book on the crimes of the Yugoslav communists.

Ort:
- Zagreb Trg Marka Marulića 21, Croatia 10000
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Gründungsdatum:
- 1999
Besondere Beispiele: