Saturday, April 22, 2023

VERA and DONALD BLINKEN OPEN SOCIETY LIBRARY at CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY : COLD WAR - COMMUNISM - HUMAN RIGHTS

Where have I been to not have known of this research library in Budapest?  Thanks to a YouTube video by a woman who did research there, I might not have heard of it. 

Excerpt from website:  The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) is a complex archival institution.  OSA is both a repository of important collections, primarily related to the history of the Cold War and grave international human rights violations....

OSA ARCHIVE START PAGE - BUDAPEST

YOUTUBE OSA ARCHIVE - PLAYLISTS - VIDEO COLLECTION

Bettina Fabos briefly tells of her use of the OSA archive in order to tell her family story.  Hardly recovered from the losses they endured during World War II by 1949 Communism was the next to persecute farmers who were independent, meaning they owned their own land.  Ms. Fabos is a college professor in the United States. She worked with police archives, newspapers, cartoons, and much more.