The Herta Müller Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS focuses on the case of the Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller and the way in which the Romanian secret police, the Securitate, monitored the development of her cultural opposition towards the communist regime. The documents of the collection show that Herta Müller came to the unwanted attention of the Securitate as her writings shed a negative light on “socialist reality” and they intensified their informative surveillance of her as her prose reached a larger and more international audience.

Location:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
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Featured items:
- Securitate. About Herta Müller’s Niederungen (Nadirs), March 1982. Note
- Securitate. Herta Müller’s discussion with a German citizen about her persecutions by the Securitate, 25 July 1986. Report

History of Homosexuality in Croatia Collection

The History of Homosexuality in Croatia Collection covers some of the most salient aspects of Croatian gay and lesbian private and public life in the socialist period (1945-1990). Court verdicts for same-sex sexual relations testify to the active institutional persecution of homosexuality, mostly in the immediate post-war period, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Personal memories and oral history recollections illustrate the harsh everyday life reality of homosexuals in socialist Yugoslavia, but they also tell amazing stories of individual or collective resistance to institutional and social homophobia.

Location:
- Zagreb Petrinjska ulica, Croatia 10000
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Date of founding:
- 2007
Featured items:
- Appeal letter against Zagreb District Court verdict K 236/949-7, December 1949
- Marošević, Toni. Notes for “Frigidna utičnica” [The Frigid Socket] radio show. 1984. Manuscript

Homérosz Association - Háttér Society Archives

Gossiping and police reports shaped legends of homosexual and queer subcultures in socialist Hungary. The records of the first Hungarian homosexual association provide unique insights into the opportunities for self-organisation and collective identity, beyond official and popular misrepresentation.

Location:
- Budapest Csanády utca 4b, Hungary 1132
Topics:
- alternative lifestyles and resistance of the everydays
- human rights movements
Date of founding:
- 1995
Featured items:
- Founding documents of Homérosz Organisation

Hristo Damyanov Ognyanov Collection

The collection consists of documents pertaining to Hristo Damyanov Ognyanov, a leading figure of the Bulgarian democratic opposition in exile. The collection is located at the Central State Archive in Sofia. Hristo Ognyanov (born 1911, died 1997) was a writer and journalist. He was part of different Bulgarian exile communities, in Austria, the USA, and West Germany. He worked for Bulgarian émigré publications and contributed to The Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. In Germany, Ognyanov (often published under Christo Ognjanoff) became a member of EXIL-PEN. He was co-founder of the Petar Beron Bulgarian Academic Society (BAS “Petar Beron”), which sought to unite Bulgarian exile intellectuals. This collection is an important source of information about the Bulgarian cultural opposition in exile, their international connections and network, and their contacts with opposition groups in Bulgaria.

Location:
- R Bulgaria, 1000 Sofia, Moskovska Str. N 5
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Date of founding:
- 1997
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