Interviews Collection of the Oral History Center

The digital collection of the Oral History Center contains more than 2000 interviews with twentieth-century witnesses, which are divided into different themes and topics, thus presenting a unique collection of professionally created interviews and memories, many of which are related to the theme of cultural opposition.

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Adresa:
- Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
Data fondării:
- 2000
Piese remarcabile:
- Interview with Herbert Kisza, 2008.
- Interview with Jiří Gruntorád, 2003.

Ivan Blatný Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

Ivan Blatný (1919–1990), an important Czech poet, lived and died in exile in the United Kingdom after 1948. Upon arrival in the UK, he applied for political asylum and became a “banned” poet in Czechoslovakia as a result of his emigration and openly talking on BBC radio about political pressure against artists in Czechoslovakia. Despite being banned, his work circulated in Czechoslovakia through both samizdat and official printings.

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Adresa:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
- emigrație/exil
- literatură și critică literară
Data fondării:
- 1977
Piese remarcabile:

Ivan Medek Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Ivan Medek (1925-2010) was a prominent Czech music publicist, a signatory of Charter 77 and a founding member of VONS. In 1978 he went into exile, where he founded the Press Service and worked with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. This collection contains unique documents from his exile activity.

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Adresa:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
Data fondării:
- 1978
Piese remarcabile:
- Letter of Ivan Medek on founding of Press Service, 1982

Ivana Tigridová Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Ivana Tigridová (1925-2008) was a journalist and human rights activist. She was one of the most distinguished personalities of Czechoslovak exile. In Paris, she founded two organisations supporting prisoners and persecuted opponents of the regime in Czechoslovakia and other countries of the Eastern Bloc.

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Adresa:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
Data fondării:
- 1974
Piese remarcabile:
- Newsletter Help and Action, 1977.

Jakša Kušan Collection

The collection testifies to the thirty-six-year activity of Croatian journalist and writer Jakša Kušan (1931), who propagated the idea of a democratic, pluralistic and free Croatia in exile from 1955 to 1990. By editing and publishing the non-partisan magazine Nova Hrvatska, he tried to inform the Croatian and global public about the suppression of human rights and civil liberties in socialist Croatia and Yugoslavia.

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Adresa:
- Zagreb Vrhovec 26, Croatia 10000
Subiecte:
Data fondării:
- 1955
Piese remarcabile:
- Stjepan Babić, Božidar Finka, Milan Moguš. Hrvatski pravopis (Croatian Orthography), 1972. Book
- Summer Courses of the Free Europe University in Exile, 1957. Brochure