COURAGE

gyűjtemények hálózata

A Gyulafehérvári Márton Áron Emlékgyűjtemény a püspök életét és tevékenységét a legteljesebb módon felölelő anyagokat tartalmazza, melyek az egyéni kiállás és áldozatvállalás számtalan bizonyítéka mellett, a Szentszékkel, a romániai állami hatóságokkal, magánszemélyekkel folytatott hivatalos és magánlevelezés során, az egyház és a katolikus hit túléléséért vívott harcán túl, betekintést nyújtanak a huszadik századi kisebbségjogi és emberi jogi küzdelem részleteibe is.

Gediminas Ilgūnas was a well-known Lithuanian writer, journalist, ethnographer and traveller. In the 1950s, he was accused of anti-Soviet activity and imprisoned. On being released from prison, he and his close friends started to organise ethnographic expeditions, collecting material about important personalities in Lithuanian national history. The collection holds various manuscripts, including documents relating to his activities in the Sąjūdis movement and his political activities as a member of the Supreme Council, short memories about the Stalinist period, and material collected for a biography of Vincas Pietaris. The collection shows the actions of a Soviet-period cultural activist who tried to collect and preserve Lithuania's past culture.

The collection reflects the activity of the architect Gheorghe Leahu, known in Romania for his watercolours representing streets and monuments of Bucharest destroyed as a result of the “urban systematisation” policy of Ceauşescu’s regime. The Gheorghe Leahu Collection includes watercolours, drawings, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and books.

This collection focuses on the case of Gheorghe Muruziuc, a person of working-class background who expressed his opposition to the Soviet regime by raising the Romanian flag on the factory where he worked, in June 1966. This was the first instance when the Romanian flag was displayed in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) after June 1940.