COURAGE

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Zionskirche (Zion Church) in Prenzlauer Berg was a place where numerous rock and punk concerts and youth meetings took place on a regular basis. This black and white picture captures the singer André Greiner-Pol in concert together with the guitarist from the rock band Freygang. The band, established in 1977, continues to give concerts, despite the passing of its lead singer André Greiner-Pol in 2008.

Samizdat Family Community was published between 1985-1989. Every year had different thematic focus: 1. year (1985) - Family in the light of love (masterpiece), 2. year (1986) - Family and Christ´s peace, 3. year (1987) - Community of life, 4. year (1988) - Unity, 5. year (1989) - Freedom. As can be seen, articles in every issue focused on family and had theological or philosphical topic. Every issue then had regular sections: From family life, Lawyer helps, Psychologist among us, History of the Church, Catechesis, Current issues of the Church and society, Personalities. 
Fourth issue in 1985 focused on family and school. On 44 pages authors wrote about the role of religion in the profession of teacher, and what it means for young students as well. Every issue dealt with important persona in Slovak religious life, in this case it was Ján Hollý, 1785-1849, first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. 

This book, published in 2017, is part of the series Archives of Women and Minorities. It is the result of the long-standing and systematic work of the Balkan Society for Autobiography and Social Communication (BSASC) on the recent history, everyday life, and culture of the Roma. Students of different ethnic origins and from different faculties of Neofit Rilski South-West University (Blagoevgrad) took part in preparing the collection. This open access publication is available online: http://roma-swu.weebly.com/uploads/9/1/1/0/91107766/kniga-final-s-koritsa.pdf (in Bulgarian)

This collection combines different types of materials in three groups: oral stories from different generations of Roma individuals, written testimonies from representatives of the Roma population (e.g., petitions, institutions) and government documents regarding the Roma.

The objective of the book, through emphasizing individuals’ life stories, is to present the Roma not as simply objects of history, but as subjects of historical action. Here the personal experiences of major historical events are regarded as "an important starting point in the search for a common historical memory across the generations" of the 20th century. The volume emphasizes the importance of Roma culture to the development of Bulgaria’s overall historical memory.

The second part of the book consists of transcripts of selected documents written by Roma members which are kept in archives. This part mostly includes official applications, and petitions. The published documents highlight important cases where Roma interacted with institutions, especially with regard to the Bulgarization of names and other violations of the traditions and dignity of the Roma. They also highlight the strategies that Roma pursued in their attempts to preserve their rights. The editors of the collection highlight the small number of such documents as an indicator of the "absence of dialogue between the population and the institutions"

 

The third part of the book gives an overview of the policies of the socialist state towards minorities in general and the Roma specifically. It shows the goals and means of state policies and the attitudes of the authorities towards the Roma minority during communism. These policies have had a broad public impact which continues to this day.

The editors consider this publication to be the starting point of the Roma Archive digital collection’s future development.

The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (popularly called the Pugwash Movement) is an international organisation of scientists and intellectuals who advocate world peace. It has emerged as an international conference on science and global problems, and at the time it was “a significant international factor and channel of communication among scientists,” (Knapp, 1995, 71), primarily discussing the dangers of the development of nuclear weapons.

After each conference, the presented papers were published, but this was not the case with the first conference held in 1957. Only in 1982, on the twenty-fifth anniversary, were the proceedings published with all papers and almost all materials that were then discussed. The first conference was attended by 22 participants (of whom sixteen were physicists, two chemists, one biologist, two physicians and one lawyer) from ten countries (seven from the USA, three from the USSR, three from Japan, two from the United Kingdom, two from Canada, and one each from Australia, Austria, China, France and Poland) (Rotblat 1982, 11).

The first conference ended with a joint warning from scientists from all five countries that had or were developing nuclear weapons that the potential nuclear war would end as a “world catastrophe, with hundreds of millions people killed instantly, and hundreds of millions more dying in the aftermath” (Knapp 2013, 88-89). Croatian scientist Ivan Supek was the first man from Yugoslavia who joined the Pugwash Movement and promoted its ideas. At that time, due to plans on the possibility of developing a nuclear program, the Yugoslav authorities received the ideas of this anti-nuclear movement with scepticism. Thanks to Supek's advocacy, the Yugoslav public became aware of the movement and their activities.

Rudolf Altrichter (1916-1978) was a painter, graphic designer, and typographer. He was born to a Swiss family in Vienna. Rudolf Altrichter learned graphics and painting as an auto-didact, and in 1946 was one of the co-founders who re-established the Slovak Art Society (1946). He also founded the association of Slovak Graphic artists a year later (1947). Since 1950 he worked as freelance artist. In the 1960s his work was influenced by pop art among other things. From 1955 to 1972 he created a number of film poster designs, 32 of which were printed.
The poster I´m right, you´re right was created in 1969. Although the design has a personal dimension, it also reflects the dichotomy between individual and society after 1968 and, at the same time, it demands to subjectivise the truth.