Archive of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation

The collection is a private documentary collection of documents concerning one of the most successful Hungarian American advocacy organizations in the field of minority and human rights. Founded in 1976 by second-generation Hungarian American intellectuals and professionals and referred to until 1984 as the CHRR–Committee for Human Rights in Romania, HHRF addressed the advocacy on behalf of Hungarian minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.

Location:
- New York, United States
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1976
Featured items:
- Advertisement appeared in 1976 in the New York Times

CNSAS Online Collection

The CNSAS Online Collection (CNSAS – Romanian acronym for the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives) illustrates how the communist secret police, the Securitate, conceptualised: (1) oppositional groups and individuals in communist Romania; (2) the forms in which this opposition manifested against the party-state; and (3) the transnational support it received from the exile community and foreign organisations. It also encompasses an impressive amount of invaluable information about the inner mechanisms of the Securitate, its institutional development and relationship with the Communist Party, the use of repression against any form of opposition, and the use of surveillance to avoid the development of oppositional groups and networks during its over forty years of functioning. In brief, this collection offers a comprehensive image of the means and methods used by the communist secret police, the Securitate, to deal with the anti-communist opposition between 1948 and 1989, and the response it received from oppositional groups and individuals.

Location:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 2007
Featured items:
- About the relations of the Romanian citizens with some capitalist radio stations. In Securitatea, 41 (1978): 38-49, in Romanian. Article
- Infiltration: Cases of the use of this offensive method of work, in Romanian, 1979. Brochure

Czechoslovak Hungarian Workers' Cultural Association (CSEMADOK) Archive

The collection contains documents from the holdings of the largest cultural organisation for ethinc Hungarians in Slovakia. This organisation was one of the few in Czechoslovakia dedicated to issues affecting an ethnic minority, and its holdings therefore offer valuable insight into the status of minority cultures. The society organised cultural events and lectures, and it supported theater, song, and dance groups. It also offered a platform for maintaining cultural identity, and it provided a place for discussion.
During The Hungarian revolution in 1956 CSEMADOK supported the position of the Czechoslovak government on the events. During the Prague Spring CSEMADOK supported the liberalisation policies, tried to change itself into a political interest group, and asked for more rights and privileges for ethnic Hungarians. After the suppression of the Prague Spring the political leadership of CSEMADOK was purged.
The collection includes documents from the CSEMADOK Central Committee and documents related to the organisation of national festivals (Gombaszög/Gombasek festival, Jókai Napok/Days, etc). Publications are also a very important part of the collection.

Location:
- 931 01 Šamorín Parková 4 , Slovakia
Topics:
- folk culture (e.g. folk dance movements)
- minority movements
Date of founding:
- 1996
Featured items:
- Documentation of CSEMADOKs national events
- Materials from the provenance of the CSEMADOKs secretariat

Deadline Diaries - Transsylvanian Monitor

For two years, starting in March 1987, Határ/idő/napló: Erdélyi Figyelő (Deadline Diaries: Transylvanian Monitor), was the only independent, Hungarian periodical founded solely to report on the hardships of misery-stricken Romania during the last years of Ceauşescu’s dictatorship. Nine issues of the small samizdat paper, edited in Budapest, were initially published and distributed as 150 photocopied editions, and later as 2,000 printed copies. The copies were distributed in Hungary, among Hungarian émigrés in the West, and also in Romania through activist channels in the grassroots movement ETE (Erdélyt Támogatók Egylete – Association for Aiding Transylvanians), registered in early 1990 as Transylvania Caritas (Transcar).

Location:
- Budapest, Hungary
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1987
Featured items:
- Homoród, Bálint [Béla Nóvé]. Kétség és remény közt: Erdélyről sokadszorra (Hopes and Doubts: Once Again on Transylvania), 1989. Book
- Varga, István. Pro Domo Dei, 1990. Book

Documentation Centre – Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities

The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities is a legally constituted public entity under the authority of the Romanian Government. It was established in 2007. One of the RIRNM’s departments is the Documentation Centre. Its role is to facilitate research on national minorities from Romania, and to this aim, the Documentation Centre collects and archives primary research sources too.

Location:
- Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 2007
Featured items:
- Kányádi, Sándor. “Double speech”: Interpretations of poetry, 2009. Interview
- The Securitate-files of Géza Domokos, general director of the Kriterion publishing house, 1970-1990. Archival documents