Ivana Tigridová Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Ivana Tigridová (1925-2008) was a journalist and human rights activist. She was one of the most distinguished personalities of Czechoslovak exile. In Paris, she founded two organisations supporting prisoners and persecuted opponents of the regime in Czechoslovakia and other countries of the Eastern Bloc.

Location:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1974
Featured items:
- Newsletter Help and Action, 1977.

Jakša Kušan Collection

The collection testifies to the thirty-six-year activity of Croatian journalist and writer Jakša Kušan (1931), who propagated the idea of a democratic, pluralistic and free Croatia in exile from 1955 to 1990. By editing and publishing the non-partisan magazine Nova Hrvatska, he tried to inform the Croatian and global public about the suppression of human rights and civil liberties in socialist Croatia and Yugoslavia.

Location:
- Zagreb Vrhovec 26, Croatia 10000
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Date of founding:
- 1955
Featured items:
- Stjepan Babić, Božidar Finka, Milan Moguš. Hrvatski pravopis (Croatian Orthography), 1972. Book
- Summer Courses of the Free Europe University in Exile, 1957. Brochure

Jan Hus Educational Foundation Collection

The Jan Hus Educational Foundation's collection presents an extraordinary set of materials documenting a work of a British organization focusing on supporting of cultural opposition in Czechoslovakia, mainly through underground university, scholarships, and the publication and translation of forbidden or unaccessable books.

Location:
- Hudcova 76, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1980
Featured items:
- Travel reports of the Foundation´s lecturers and members about their visits of Czechoslovakia

Jan Patočka Archives

The Jan Patočka Archives (AJP) studies and interprets the philosophical heritage of the Czech philosopher and dissident Jan Patočka (1907-1977). AJP is led by Patočkaʼs pupils and is a unique institute working with Patočkaʼs original texts and also with the attendees of his lectures.

Location:
- Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1990
Featured items:
- Jan Patočka and Max van der Stoel - audio recording of meeting 1.3.1977, Hotel InterContinental
- Jan Patočka. Does History Have a Meaning?, 1975. Typescript

Jan Tesař Collection at the Moravian Museum

The collection is important proof of the activities of a left-thinking historian, a "spiritual father" and co-founder of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS), a co-publisher of unofficial periodic Dialogy, who was imprisoned several times and forced to go to exile, where he collaborated with dissidents from other socialist countries.

Location:
- Hudcova 76, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1939
Featured items:
- The typewriten manuscript of a petition calling for religious freedom, an predecessor of the so-called "Moravian Challenges"