COURAGE

connecting collections

• Records concerning national, foreign, regional, and specific company-level structures of the "Solidarity" Trade Union, including the National Coordinating Commission (Krajowa Komisja Porozumiewawcza), National Commission, National Executive Commission, and Regional Commissions of the "Solidarity" Trade Union, such as Gdańsk, Słupsk, Mazovian, Mid-eastern, Silesian-Dąbrowa, and company commissions of the "Solidarity" Trade Union;
• Records of social committees, organised and functioning within the framework of the "Solidarity" Trade Union structure;
• Heritage of "Solidarity"'s chaplains;
• Private collections, including letters of Lech Wałęsa from the 1983-1989 period;
• Collections of materials covering strikes and political events in Polish People's Republic, as well as journals, non-serial and independent publications by Solidarity Trade Union, Committee for Social Self-Defence KOR, Young Poland Movement, Free Trade Unions of the Coast et. al.;
• 2,500 posters and leaflets, i.a. from the March of 1968 and the December of 1970;
• 20,000 photographs, negatives, and printing matrices;
• Ca. 700 tapes and radio reels with recordings of Union’s statutory bodies’ sessions, "Solidarity" Trade Union activists’ interviews, satirical programmes, “independent” songs, and other Solidarity-related materials.

The Archives of Yugoslavia preserves and protects archival material created by the work of state organs and organizations of the Yugoslav state from 1918 to 2006. The initiative to found the archives began in 1920, but it was only established after the Second World War, in 1950, under the name State Archive of the FNRJ (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). It has had its current name since 1964, with a small break from 2003 to 2009, when it was known as the Archive of Serbia and Montenegro (during the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro). Fonds in the Archives are divided into two groups: one covering the period up until 1945 and the other after 1945. They are searchable online.

The Archive of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is a Hungarian archival collection. MTA dealt with their documents since it’s foundation. The documents were organized professionally in the 1930s and placed in the Archives of Manuscripts of the Library of the MTA after 1945. This is the Old Academic Archives. In 1949, the Academy was reorganized. It became an organization which controls scientific life in Hungary, together with many research institutes. This led to an increase in the number of documents. The academic presidential decision no. 48/1963 established the independent Academic Archives. The Archive started its work as an independent unit on January 1, 1964, but under the organization of the Library of MTA. Its task is to collect, store, and sort the academic documents created after 1949. After the decree-law no. 27 of 1969, the minister of public education declared the Academic Archives a professional archives, as expressed in his letter no. XVIII. 94978/1970. Today the archives are classified public archives based on the academic law (1994) and the archives law (1995).