COURAGE

connecting collections

István Rév (1951) is a Hungarian historian and professor. From 1969 to 1975, he studied history, English language and English-language literature, and sociology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Between 1975 and 1985, he worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1984, he was one of the founders of the environmental movement “Danube Circle.” From 1985 to 1991, he worked at the Karl Marx University of Economics. In 1991, he became a professor at Central European University, and between 1991 and 1993 he was the director of the University’s Budapest College. In 1998, he became the director of the Open Society Archives.

Renáta Růžičková (born Brožová) was born in March 30^th, 1968 in Pardubice. She graduated at the grammar school in Holice in eastern Bohemia and in 1986 she started working in the State Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Archives). A year later, she was accepted to study archival studies at the UJEP Faculty of Arts (FF). During the event of the revolution in 1989, she joined the students who took part in the Strike Committee of the FF UJEP. Here she joined Pavel Kocman, Darja Golková (later Kocábová) and Ivo Durec and co-created the archive - today's collection of the UJEP Strike Committee. In 1990 she finalised the collection together with Darja Golková. She graduated in 1991. She currently works as an archivist in the State District Archive in Pardubice.

Lembit Saarts was an Estonian artist. From 1942 to 1948 he studied at the Pallas Art School, which was later renamed the Tartu State Art Institute. He was a member of the Tartu Circle, and, like most other members, he was arrested in 1949 and sent to a prison camp in Jezkazgan in Kazakhstan. He was released in 1956. He then returned to Tartu, worked there as a drawing teacher, and became a member of the Estonian Artists' Union. From 1966 to 1984, he also worked as an artist at the Experimental Repair Factory in Tartu.