COURAGE

Свързване на колекции

The Ellenpontok Ad-hoc Collection stored in the CNSAS Archives comprises, besides the records of the Securitate, the written evidences of the system-criticising activity of the samizdat editors and their struggle against the violation of human rights and ethnic discrimination. In addition to the life courses of Transylvanian Hungarian intellectuals monitored during the 1970s and 1980s, the collection offers insight into the working methods applied by the secret police in compliance with the policies of the Party, which envisaged the surveillance of individuals in opposition even after their emigration.

The Tóth Private Collection in Göteborg comprises the most comprehensive materials related to Ellenpontok (Counterpoints), the Hungarian-language samizdat publication which gained international reputation in the early 1980s due to its resolute fight for human and minority rights in communist Romania. At the same time, the items resulting from the different stages of the Tóth family’s emigrant life (Hungary, Canada, Sweden), such as official documents, manuscripts, sound recordings, photos, private correspondence, and books on minorities, shed light on the cultural efforts undertaken by the collectors in order to improve the situation of those left behind.

Колекцията предизвиква интерес с малко познати моменти от всекидневния живот в Югозападна България като преживяването и съпротивата срещу колективизацията; преживявания, свързани с религиозната политика на властта през социализма и др. Колекцията е една от първите, създадени от Балканското общество за автобиографистика и социално общуване - Благоевград (БОАСО) сбирки от устни разкази и фотодокументи, които имат за цел да дадат собствената гледна точка на хората, живели през социализма.