Božena Komárková Collection at the Moravian Museum

The collection contains materials describing the activities of the Brno´s Protestant dissent, the philosopher Božena Komárková. It also documents lectures from the secretive meetings held in Božena Komárková’s apartment.

Location:
- Hudcova 76, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1920
Featured items:
- Transcript of the interview from the underground university´s lecture of Božena Komárková

Bratislavské listy Editorial Office Archive

Bratislavské listy [Bratislava Papers] was a Christian-political samizdat created from 1988 to 1989, with 4 published issues. The Collection of Bratislavské listy Editorial Office was created in 2002 by the newly established Nation’s Memory Institute, an institution governed by public law that is focused on research and the collecting of documents from socialist era. This collection contains not only published issues of Bratislavské listy, documents such as correspondence, manuscripts, and personal notes of authors dealing with topics discussed in Bratislavské listy, but also unique original appeals to the Czechoslovak President signed, among others, by Alexander Dubček, Martin M. Šimečka or Ján Langoš.

Location:
- Bratislava Miletičova 7, Slovakia 821 08
Topics:
- religious activism
- samizdat and tamizdat
Date of founding:
- 2002
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Braşov - Oraşul Memorabil Collection

The Brașov–Orașul Memorabil Collection gathers more than 4,500 scanned copies of personal and official photos illustrating the history of this Transylvanian city, everyday life in Romania under communism, the programme of so-called urban systematisation conducted during Ceaușescu’s regime, and the popular resistance to this arbitrary policy.

Location:
- Braşov Șirul Ludwig van Beethoven 1, Romania 500123
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Date of founding:
- 2010
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Brethren Unity of Baptists

The collection contains samizdat editions of religious literature and hymnals and illegal recordings on magnetic tapes, SPs, LPs and audio cassettes. It documents the work of the members of the Unity of the Brethren Baptists and their teetering between what was permitted by the government’s supervision over the churches and their own ideas about evangelization in the period of socialism.

Location:
- Bratislava Palisády 27A, Slovakia 811 06
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Date of founding:
- 1958
Featured items:
- Chválospevy
- Matuzalem – výber 18 kresťanských piesní

Brigitte Reimann Archive

The archive houses the personal estate of the German writer Brigitte Reimann (1933-1973), whose literary criticism of the contradictions between socialist ideals and human needs had a great impact on the public in social reality of the GDR.

Location:
- Neubrandenburg Gartenstraße 6, Germany 17033
Topics:
- literature and literary criticism
Date of founding:
- 1978
Featured items:
- Conclusion from the unpublished (in the DDR) manuscript for "Franziska Linkerhand"
- Extracts from the diary of Brigitte Reimann, August 1968