The collection contains samizdats of religious literature, secretly released songbooks and tape recordings. Albums with gospel music were the property of private individuals who secretly made recordings, albums and published songs in the period of socialism for their own needs, to spread the Gospel among youth. The collection contains records from 1968, atheistic socialist Czechoslovakia, to the present period with their current versions after 1989.

Location:
- Bratislava Staré Grunty, Slovakia 841 04
- Bratislava Žižkova 4497/18, Slovakia 811 02
Topics:
- religious activism
- youth culture
Date of founding:
- 1968
Featured items:
- Liturgický spevník I
- Songs from Taizé

Usatiuc-Ghimpu-Graur Collection (National Patriotic Front) at National Archive of Moldova

This collection comprises documents (including trial records) relating to the group known as the “National Patriotic Front,” which are currently held in the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova (ANRM). These materials were transferred to the ANRM from the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive). This group operated in the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) in the late 1960s and the early 1970s as the only significant organisation in the MSSR with a clear-cut and coherent oppositional message.

Location:
- Chișinău Strada Gheorghe Asachi 67, Moldova
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1972
Featured items:
- Letter from the National Patriotic Front to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1971 (in Russian)
- Report of the MSSR KGB on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1972 (in Russian)

VONS Collection at Libri Prohibiti

The VONS collection of Libri Prohibiti comprises of documents created by VONS – the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. The basis of the VONS collection is the archive of this organisation created mainly at the end of the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s.

Location:
- Senovážné nám. 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Topics:
- human rights movements
- surveillance (various)
Date of founding:
- 1978

VONS Collection of Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

The Collection of The Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS) contains mainly numbered published materials called ‘Communications’ (Sdělení), which were prepared by the members of VONS in which they described cases of individuals or groups, who had been prosecuted or imprisoned because of their opinions.

Location:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
Topics:
- democratic opposition
- human rights movements
Date of founding:
- 1978
Featured items:
- Founding statement of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS), 1978.

Vaclovas Aliulis collection

Vaclovas Aliulis (1921-2015) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest. During Soviet times he participated actively in underground catechisation, and was a lecturer with the Underground Catholic Seminary, which was established to train priests for Catholic parishes in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and other Soviet republics. Aliulis is the author of a number of books and other publications; and during the times of Sąjūdis (the Lithuanian national movement), he was the initiator and organiser of Catholic publishing. He started to collaborate with the Lithuanian Central State Archives from 2003, transferring files from his private papers to the state archives. The documents in the collection show the situation of the Catholic Church and the community of believers in Soviet Lithuania, and Soviet policy on religion.

Location:
- 10102 Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 19 , Lithuania
Topics:
- alternative forms of education (e.g. flying universities)
- religious activism
Date of founding:
- 2003
Featured items:
- Aliulis letter to the Soviet Lithuanian government, 1959