The Doina Cornea Private Collection is an invaluable historical source for those researching the biography and especially the dissident activities of the person labelled by the Western mass media as the “emblematic figure” of the Romanian resistance to Ceauşescu’s dictatorship. This collection comprises manuscripts of her open letters of protest, her diary, samizdat translations, correspondence, drafts of her academic works, photos, paintings, video recordings, and her personal library. This private collection is by far one of the most significant and valuable collections reflecting the cultural opposition to the Romanian communist regime.

Location:
- Cluj-Napoca Strada Alba Iulia 14, Romania 400000
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1958
Featured items:
- Cornea, Doina. Stop the demolition of the Romanian villages (open letter), in Romanian, July 1988. Manuscript
- Securitate. Doina Cornea and the staff of the French Embassy in Bucharest, 1988. Photo

Dominican Book Institute

The collection contains samizdat editions of religious literature and hymnals distributed in the underground church in the period between 1950 and 1989. It consists of the private collections of several anonymous monks and nuns of the secretly organized Dominican Order and School Sisters of St. Francis in several places of Slovakia. The library contains a large number of literature written in exile. The Dominican Book Institute helps communities to type and catalogue books but it does not own these books, their owners are the friaries of the province of the Dominican Order.

Location:
- Jánošíkovská 34, Slovakia 900 42
Topics:
- religious activism
- samizdat and tamizdat
Date of founding:
- 1989
Featured items:
- Biblické ženy. Postavy Starej zmluvy, s.n., S.I., samizdat, 1970

Dominik Tatarka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The collection of the Slovak writer and publicist Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) contains unique correspondence, manuscripts and audio recordings illustrating life of this leading Czechoslovak writer, who had been critical to the communist regime since 1950s and became a “banned author” and dissident after 1968.

Location:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1979
Featured items:
- Tatarka, Dominik. Písačky. 1976–1978. Manuscript

Dual oppression

Miklós Duray is a Hungarian politician, writer, and teacher from Slovakia. He is the founder of the Coexistence political party and he is one of the signatories of Charta 77. Under the communist regime he was a well-known opposition politician. His political career started in 1965; for a short time he was a secretary in CSEMADOK, and later a head of the Hungarian Youth Organization (MISZ) and the head of the József Attila Youth Club in Bratislava. From 1978 he was a deputy chief of the Hungarian minority’s legal protection committee. In 1990 he established the Coexistence party and was head of the party until 1998. After 1998 he was an important member of the Party of the Hungarian Community.

Location:
- 931 01 Šamorín Parková 4 , Slovakia
- Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Topics:
- human rights movements
- minority movements
Featured items:
- Kettős elnyomásban