The Eastern Archive, initiated in 1987, is a collection of testimonies gathered from former Polish citizens, repressed by the Soviet Union after the 1939, imprisoned, resettled, etc. Their remembrance was excluded from the official view of the past during the communist era. At the end of the Polish Peoples’ Republic it became possible to make it more public.

Location:
- Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
Topics:
- survivors of persecutions under authoritarian/totalitarian regimes
Date of founding:
- 1987
Featured items:
- Personal documents of Witold Lis-Olszewski

Ecological Protests against Chlorine Pollution in Ruse

The collection was established in the 1980s and 1990s. It includes autobiographical materials, personal memoirs and images connected with one of the first and most important civic and ecological mass protest movements of the 1980s in Bulgaria.

Location:
- Bulgaria, 7000 Ruse, Al. Batenberg Square N 3
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1989
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Edvard Kocbek Collection

The Edvard Kocbek Collection is located in the depot of the National and University Library in Ljubljana. It is actually his personal bequest to that same library. Kocbek was the greatest Slovenian poet and writer of the 20^th century, who, as a Christian Socialist, joined the Slovene National Liberation Front under the control of the communists during the Second World War. Due to his divergent opinions about the war and the policies of the new communist regime, immediately after the war he was placed under the surveillance of the secret police (known as the UDBA). After that, he was very soon placed under a kind of public isolation, which implied limited movement and restricted access to intellectual life.

Location:
- Ljubljana Turjaška ulica 1, Slovenia 1000
Topics:
Featured items:
- Kocbek, Edvard. “Fear and Courage” (radio dramatization by Ivan Buzečan), 1981. Manuscript
- Letter from Mihajlo Mihajlov to Edvard Kocbek, 7 June 1966

Eginald Schlattner Collection at Teutsch Haus Sibiu

Persecuted under communism, Eginald Schlattner emerged after 1989 as one of the most successful writers of the German community in Romania. His personal collection, which contains books, manuscripts, letters, photos and video recordings, reflects his troubled relations with the communist regime.

Location:
- Sibiu Strada Mitropoliei 30, Romania
Topics:
Date of founding:
- n.a.
Featured items:
- Schlattner, Eginald. Gediegenes Erz, in German, 1956. Manuscript
- Schlattner, Eginald. Tagebuch, in German, n.d. Manuscript

Egon Bondy Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

This collection of the Czecho-Slovak poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher and “guru” of the Czechoslovak underground, Egon Bondy (real name Zbyněk Fišer, 1930–2007), consists of sources related to the history of the Czechoslovak literary underground and the left-wing opposition to the communist regime.

Location:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1984
Featured items:
- Bondy, Egon. Buddha, 1968. Manuscript
- Bondy, Egon. The Invalid Siblings, 1974. Manuscript