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	HU OSA 206
Fonds 206:	Records of the Open Society Archives at Central European University

Date(s) 1938-2000 (1938-1971, 1995-2000)

Extent and medium

Estimated total:
24 boxes of color photo prints , 50 audio cassettes, 132 video cassettes - VHS, 4 video cassettes - Hi8
Currently processed:
1 Archival boxes, 0.13 linear meters
3 CD-ROM, 0.03 linear meters
65 VHS, 2 linear meters

Scope and content

The fonds consists of video and sound recordings and photo documentation of public events (conferences, opening ceremonies of exhibitions at Galeria Centralis, public lectures, summer university courses) organized by OSA.
Copies of historical documentary and propaganda films relating to the 20th century totalitarianism and the Cold War also form part of the fonds.
Also included are interviews relating to the history of the Soros foundations network and to the history of RFE/RL Hungarian Desk.

Accruals Expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 206-1 Exhibitions
  • HU OSA 206-1-2 The Art of the Unofficial
  • HU OSA 206-1-3 Fifty Years Ago It Was A Hundred Years Ago
  • HU OSA 206-1-4 International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
  • HU OSA 206-1-5 Prague Spring
  • HU OSA 206-1-6 Freeze Frames of Communism
  • HU OSA 206-1-7 Ten Years of Freedom
  • HU OSA 206-1-8 The Commissar Vanishes
  • HU OSA 206-1-9 Gulag
  • HU OSA 206-1-10 Ten Years After
  • HU OSA 206-1-11 Past in the Present for Future
  • HU OSA 206-1-12 Vietnám & Vietnam
  • HU OSA 206-1-19 Angkor
  • HU OSA 206-1-20 Type - Writer
  • HU OSA 206-1-21 East Is Red
  • HU OSA 206-1-22 Bodies in Formation
  • HU OSA 206-1-23 The Millenary Exhibition
  • HU OSA 206-1-24 Forced Bathing in Hungary
  • HU OSA 206-1-25 DPRK
  • HU OSA 206-1-26 Sex and Communism
  • HU OSA 206-1-27 05. 03. 1953
  • HU OSA 206-1-28 International Theatre
  • HU OSA 206-1-29 Unerasable Communism
  • HU OSA 206-1-30 Atom
  • HU OSA 206-1-31 The Divide
• HU OSA 206-2 OSA events
• HU OSA 206-3 Public Relations
  • HU OSA 206-3-1 Sound and visual records of public and special events of the Open Society Archives
  • HU OSA 206-3-2 Audiovisual materials collected for OSA´s exhibitions purposes
  • HU OSA 206-3-5 Sound and visual records of the Conference on the Human Rights in the Democracy Movement

Conditions governing access

Accessible to all researchers, subject to the General Restriction Policy of OSA, excluding series 5, where access rights have to be determined

Language/scripts of material

English, German, Hungarian, Romany, Russian

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP No. 7 "Prague Spring 1968"; RIP No. 8 "Forced Labor Camps under Communism"; RIP No. 5" Church and Religion")

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Joan Fairweather and Zsuzsanna Zadori 1996-1998; Branislav Kovacevic 2002; revised by Zsuzsanna Zádori 18 Sep 2000
Online version updated 21 January 2010