The National Museum-Memorial to the Victims of Occupation “Prison on Lonskogo Street” has a small, but growing, archival collection. A detention facility used by the Polish police, the Nazi and Soviet occupational regimes, and lastly the KGB, this museum-memorial has a storied past. The building was used by regional state security services (SBU) as a prison until 1996. After the local community caught wind of a plan to allow developers to build on the site in 2006, activists mobilized to transform the prison into a site commemorating the thousands of prisoners executed by the NKVD in 1941 as the Red Army fled from advancing Nazi forces, and those incarcerated here in the decades that followed.

Curators have amassed 2,000 items since the museum’s opening in 2009. In addition to World War II propaganda from Nazi and Soviet forces, it holds the personal belongings of political prisoners and detainees—letters, personal documents, and samizdat publications used to prosecute dissidents, artists, and human rights activists in Lviv and its surrounding environs in the 1960s and 1970s. The latter is an ad hoc collection of about 50 items described in the rest of this entry, which includes embroidery, rosaries made out of bread, and other materials created by prisoners serving out lengthy sentences in Siberian labour camps under Brezhnev. Situated within the larger context of the museum-memorial’s holdings, these materials about Lviv’s dissidents is important for understanding the Soviet Union’s treatment of its most intransigent opponents well into the Brezhnev era.

Skaityti visą

Vieta:
- L'viv Stepana Bandery Street 1, Ukraine
- Lviv, Ukraine
Temos:
Įkūrimo data:
- 2009
Charakteringi eksponatai:

Resistance of Turkish Minority in Bulgaria

The collection was established in the period from 2010 to 2016. It includes personal memories and materials of members of the Turkish minority of Bulgaria, who today live in different countries, most of them in Turkey. The collection sheds light on the life of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria and their responses to the contradictory politics, in long periods - discriminatory and assimilatory, of the socialist state.

Skaityti visą

Vieta:
- Bursa , Turkey
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Įkūrimo data:
- 2010
Charakteringi eksponatai:
- Secretly taken photo from the forced labour camp in Belene
- Video interview with Embiya Çavuş

Revolution of 1989 in Timișoara - Private Photograph Collection

The Lucian Ionică private collection is one of the few collections of snapshots taken during the tensest and most feverish days of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 in the city of Timişoara, the place where the popular revolt against the communist dictatorship first broke out. The photographic documents in this collection preserve the memory both of the dramatic moments before the change of regime and of the days immediately after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, when sudden freedom of expression produced moments no less significant for the recent history of Romania.

Skaityti visą

Vieta:
- Timișoara Bulevardul Vasile Pârvan 4, Romania
Temos:
Įkūrimo data:
- 1989
Charakteringi eksponatai:
- Ionică, Lucian. Revolution of 1989 - Living statue, Timișoara, December 1989. Photo
- Ionică, Lucian. Wounded children, Timișoara, 1989. Photo

Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The collection reflects, on the one hand, the oppositional activity of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church towards the communist regime, and, on the other hand, the intense surveillance and harsh repression of this Church carried out by the repressive apparatus of the communist authorities. The Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection represents the most comprehensive collection of documents, which illustrates the multilayered resistance to dictatorship of one of the most repressed religious groups in communist Romania and its vivid underground religious activity from 1948 to 1989.

Skaityti visą

Vieta:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
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Charakteringi eksponatai:
- Memorandum addressed to Nicolae Ceauşescu, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, in Romanian, 1989. Manuscript
- Memorandum addressed to the president of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, in Romanian, 1948. Manuscript (copy)

Rudi Supek Collection

The personal collection of Croatian philosopher and sociologist Rudi Supek contains documents and photographs that testify to Supek's intellectual activity, which had been prevented in some phases of his life. Supek was the editor of two critically-oriented Marxist journals, Pogledi and Praxis, and as one of the main protagonists of the Korčula Summer School of Philosophy, he expressed views that did not align with those promoted by the Communist authorities. Supek's disagreement with the practices of the communist regime stemmed from his understanding of the position of intellectuals in society and his stance that there is no socialism without democracy. This collection also illustrates Supek's work as one of the pioneers of the environmental movement in Yugoslavia.

Skaityti visą

Vieta:
- Zagreb Trg Marka Marulića 21, Croatia 10000
Temos:
Įkūrimo data:
- 1950
Charakteringi eksponatai: