COURAGE

connecting collections

Sbírky Centra pro československá exilová studia obsahují mnoho unikátních materiálů spojených s osobnostmi československého exilu. Sbírky obsahují archiválie, které se váží k exilu nejenom v Evropě, ale po celém světě, včetně Latinské Ameriky či Austrálie.

Sbírky Muzea romské kultury v Brně obsahují jedinečné materiály týkající se života, historie a kultury Romů v České republice a na Slovensku, a mapují sociální, politické a kulturní aktivity příslušníků této minority. Tato sbírka je úzce zaměřená na romskou menšinu a v českém okruhu je naprosto unikátní. Součástí sbírek jsou také materiály mapující život romské menšiny v období komunistického režimu a snahy o emancipaci.

The Sirje Kiin private archive was formed as the result of the professional and creative activities of the journalist, literary scholar and critic Sirje Kiin (b. 1949). It includes material from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Its most valuable parts are the very extensive correspondence with many cultural figures of the day, and diaries in which, among other things, the cultural and political climate of the 'hot' autumn of 1980 is described. Starting with protests by youth against the russification policies, and the suppression of these protests by the security forces, it led to the writing of a famous letter by 40 intellectuals, an open letter from Soviet Estonian cultural figures protesting against the increasing russification.

The collection was created in the Ukrainian diaspora by the Smoloskyp Publishing House. Deeply involved in political and cultural opposition in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine, Smoloskyp built a communication channel between Ukraine and the international community, making the Ukrainian oppositional movement internationally known. In 1998, the collection was institutionalized as the Museum-Archive and Documentation Centre of Ukrainian Samvydav in Kyiv. It holds the most extensive collection of Ukrainian samizdat; Ukrainian diaspora periodicals; the collection of Ukrainian tamizdat (samizdat materials published abroad in Ukrainian, Russian, English, French, German and other languages); hundreds of photos of Soviet-era political prisoners and dissidents; the archives of several committees for human rights in Ukraine from the US, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and other countries.