Rimantas Vėbra (1931-1999) was a Lithuanian historian and specialist in 19th-century history. His research covers the Lithuanian national movement in the second half of the 19th century. While he was not an active participant in the anti-Soviet dissident movement, his professional activity was restricted because of his writings, research works that were perceived by the authorities as unconventional, and his deviation from the ideological norm.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Vilnius Žygimantų gatvė 1, Lithuania 01143
Temati:
- cenzūra
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1999
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Manuscript of Vėbra's Presentation in 1983

Roger Loewig Collection

In 1963 the painter and graphic artist Roger Loewig was arrested following his first privately organised exhibition in East-Berlin. Throughout the regime, Loewig denied socialist realism artistic forms of production, while his artworks were considered subversive. After almost one year of imprisonment, Loewig was released in the GDR with the support from the Protestant Church from West Germany. Loewig’s release on three years probation could not be prevented. It was only 1972 that the artist could leave the GDR and settled in West-Berlin. Following his death in 1997, Loewig’s private fine-arts collection was bestowed by the Roger Loewig Association. This was founded in 1998 in Frankfurt Oder. Since 2000 the fine-arts legacy of the artist is preserved by the Federal Foundation for Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. This aims at facilitating the scientific documentation and preservation of Loewig' artistic legacy. The literary and biographical works are currently on hold at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- 10117 Berlin Kronenstraße 5
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1998
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Lithography "Couple behind a fence"
- Painting "There is still chant under the broken bridge"

Roma Archive Digital Collection

The Roma Archive is the first digital collection devoted specifically to the Roma community in Bulgaria. Its aim is to show the history and memories of a people which have been invisible to the general Bulgarian public, and who are usually portrayed by the media in terms of deviant social and cultural behavior. The collection was created by the Balkan Society for Autobiography and Social Communication (BSASC). It includes numerous autobiographic interviews, rich visual materials, and a variety of other documents and images containing information on the Roma community in Bulgaria taken from Bulgarian State archives.

One of the main themes of the collection is the fate of the Roma minority under communism, during which it was subjected to frequent assimilation campaigns and when expressions of Roma culture was severely restricted. The collection aims to contribute to the democratization of historical knowledge, raising the profile of Bulgaria’s Roma community as well as increasing awareness within the community of the value of historical documents. At the same time, the ongoing process of building the collection itself contributes to overcoming ethnocentricity in Bulgaria’s education system. It strengthens intercultural dialogue and aids in the educational potential of Roma community members. The Roma Archive help makes the Roma more visible in Bulgarian society, education, and academia.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Blagoevgrad, South-West University, Bulgaria
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 2016
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Roma Archive. Democratic Publicity by Right of History

Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The collection reflects, on the one hand, the oppositional activity of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church towards the communist regime, and, on the other hand, the intense surveillance and harsh repression of this Church carried out by the repressive apparatus of the communist authorities. The Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection represents the most comprehensive collection of documents, which illustrates the multilayered resistance to dictatorship of one of the most repressed religious groups in communist Romania and its vivid underground religious activity from 1948 to 1989.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Temati:
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Memorandum addressed to Nicolae Ceauşescu, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, in Romanian, 1989. Manuscript
- Memorandum addressed to the president of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, in Romanian, 1948. Manuscript (copy)

Romas Kalanta collection

The collection is an album of 24 photographs made by a KGB officer (or secret informer) about the youth protests after the self-immolation of Romas Kalanta in Kaunas in the spring of 1972. The album shows the attitude of the KGB towards the anti-Soviet event and youth protests. On the other hand, it also shows the attitude of the younger generation of Lithuanians towards the regime.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- 01109 Vilnius Kražių gatvė 5 , Lithuania
Temati:
- jaunatnes kultūra
- uzraudzība (dažāda veida)
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1972
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- The Romas Kalanta event's album