What is OSA? The Open Society Archives -- OSA -- is an archives and a center for research and education. Its collections and activities relate to the period after the Second World War, mainly The Cold War, The history of the formerly communist countries, Human rights, and War crimes. Search or Browse OSA holdings, read more about OSA, also in Russian, Hungarian.
Media coverage of OSA Archivum on the Hungarian Television (m1), October 2007
Summer Break: Dear Researchers, please note that OSA Reading Room will be closed between July 21-August 24. The first working day is Monday, August 24.
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Forced to Close Down
Shortly after celebrating its 25th Anniversary in November 2007, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), the foremost watchdog for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe was forced to file for bankruptcy and consequently close down due to a massive fraud committed by its former financial manager.
As the official archive of the General Secretariat, OSA Archivum will continue to operate the Federation's website for an undetermined period of time, while its staff will make everything possible to transfer IHF's remaining documentation to Budapest and make it available for research in a timely manner. The historic documents of the Federation covering the period from the early 1980s to 2000 are already accessible for the public.
Copy of OHR Archive to Be Transferred
The Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR), an ad hoc international institution responsible for overseeing the implementation of civilian aspects of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement whose mandate expires on June 30, 2008, is going to transfer a digital copy of their archive covering its activities to OSA Archivum. Once processed, the archive will be fully accessible online.
Hungarian Soros Foundation Archive to Be Managed by OSA Archivum
Since the Hungarian Soros Foundation will suspend its activities from January, 2008, the archival copy of its website will be taken over and maintained permanently by OSA. OSA will also do the full archival processing of the records documenting the Foundation's activities, launch the Digital Photo Archive of the Foundation and soon introduce the Hungarian language knowledge base of Roma projects supported by the Foundation.
Historical Filmstrips at OSA Archivum
OSA Archivum is supporting the activities of the only Hungarian Online Filmstrip History Museum [Virtuális Diafilm-Történeti Múzeum] by hosting, developing and preparing an English version of its website, and doing preservation work on the physical collection by re-digitizing bad quality filmstrips. This private collection includes, among others, over 2,500 filmstrips from the fields of education, science and entertainment and 150 technical devices.
Two new books co-authored by OSA Archivum historians
In December 2007 CEU Press published two new volumes that resulted from the Culture 2000 Project spearheaded by OSA Archivum. The over two dozen essays from scholars around the region contained in Past in the Making and Past for the Eyes give a fresh look into historical revisionism and representations of communism in cinema and museums in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989.
This is OSA's digital archive dedicated to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its 50th Anniversary. The collections of the archive (except the National Security Archive and the Zwack collections) have been digitized by OSA to make crucial documents of the history of the Revolution publicly available for the first time.
The creation of the digital archive has been generously funded by Donald and Vera Blinken; supported by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Columbia University, New York, Google, the National Security Archive, Washington D.C., the National Széchenyi Library in Budapest, and Mr. Peter Zwack.
Do you teach? OSA offers online access to historical documents and objects presented as virtual exhibitions, online photo gallery, etc. and moreand ready to be used in your university or high-school curriculum.
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Az OSA Archívum és az 1956-os Intézet a Nagy Imre és társai elleni per ötvenedik évfordulóján rendhagyó, egyhetes megemlékezést szervez. Az 1958. júniusi per során a Belügyminisztérium hangtechnikusai a tárgyalóteremben elhelyezett két készülékkel az első naptól a kegyelmi kérvények benyújtásáig folyamatosan magnószalagra rögzítették a Nagy Imre és társai elleni per teljes anyagát, beleértve a vádlottak és a tanúk kihallgatását, a vádiratot, a védőbeszédeket és az utolsó szó jogán elmondottakat. tovább...
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the trial by People's Jury of Imre Nagy and his fellow defendants, OSA Archivum, jointly with the 1956 Institute, is organizing an unusual, one-week-long event. more...
OSA Highlights
OSA Archivum is launching the Parallel Archive, the online repository of records relating to the activities of the Hungarian Secret Police and other repressive organs, obtained by private persons and researchers from various archives, especially from the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security and its predecessors.
Tizenhét éve várunk arra, hogy a törvényhozók engedélyezzék múltunk megismerését. Javasoljuk: ne várjunk tovább, kezdjünk neki mi magunk! A budapesti OSA Archivum létrehozza a Párhuzamos Archívumot, a ma már elérhető egykori állambiztonsági iratok közös lelőhelyét. tovább...
Recent acqusitions
New Addition to the 1956 Digital Archive: The Claire de Hedervary Collection
In early 2008, OSA Archivum will launch a new digital collection comprising over 30,000 pages documenting the activity of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary. Among them are some highly confidential documents relating to the 1956 Revolution that have never been made accessible to the public. It is by the courtesy of Claire de Hedervary, a former Director in the Political Affairs Department of the United Nations, that these materials were deposited at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest and OSA could obtain, digitize and publish them. A selection of documents from the collection can be viewed here.
Procedure Employed by UN Subsidiary Organs in Taking Evidence pdf
