Thematic Guide - Jewish Experiences
The thematic guide on Jewish experiences in the 20th century is based on the list, compiled by Slavic Archivist Anastasia Felcher, available on the European Jewish Archives Portal.
HU OSA 300-5: RFE/RL Research Institute, Analytic Research Department, 1951-1995
Collected at the Analytic Research Department at RFE/RL, the subfonds contains reference files. The material was collected in accordance to individual interests of the analysts. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in 14 folders dispersed throughout the archival series Subject Files of Oksana Antic (on Jews in Belarus and Ukraine), Subject Files of Riina Kionka (on Raoul Wallenberg), and Subject Files of Ann Sheely (on Jewish lives in the Soviet Union and Russia).
HU OSA 300-7: RFE/RL Research Institute, US Office, 1945-1973
Collected at the US Office of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains newspaper clippings from Western, mostly American, press, and news agency releases. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, general Eastern European, and the Soviet Subject Files.
HU OSA 300-10: RFE/RL Research Institute, Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files, 1943-1994
Collected at the Balkan Section of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains contains clippings from Albanian, Yugoslav, and foreign press, research papers, and excerpts from RFE/RL and state radio broadcasts. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in Yugoslav Subject Files and Biographical Files.
HU OSA 300-20: RFE/RL Research Institute, Bulgarian Unit, 1949-1994
Collected at the Bulgarian Unit of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains international and Bulgarian press clippings, news agency releases, transcripts of the Bulgarian National Radio, excerpts of RFE Research Reports, copies of scientific publications, transcripts of telephone interviews by a journalist at the Bulgarian Section of RFE. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in Socialist Bulgaria can be found in Subject Files and Subject Card Files.
HU OSA 300-30: RFE/RL Research Institute, Czechoslovak Unit, 1951-1994
Collected at the Czechoslovak Unit of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains press clippings, news agency releases, state radio transcripts, research papers, background analyses, index cards, emigre publications, posters and leaflets. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in Socialist Czechoslovakia can be found in the Old Code Subject Files (series nr. I, II, IV, V, VI), Old Code Subject Card Files, and New Code Subject Files.
HU OSA 300-40: RFE/RL Research Institute, Hungarian Unit, 1949-1995
Collected at the Hungarian Unit of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains Information Items, press clippings, news agency releases, research papers and background analyses, index cards, samizdat and émigré publications, posters and leaflets. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in Subject Files, Subject Files in English, Subject Card Files, Biographical Files, and Information Items.
HU OSA 300-50: RFE/RL Research Institute, Polish Unit, 1951-1994
Collected at the Polish Unit of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains press clippings, news agency releases, Radio research papers and background analyses, Information Items, index cards, posters and leaflets, telexes and letters. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in Socialist Poland can be found in Old Code Subject Files, Subject Card Files, and Program Transcripts and Background Material related to Józef Światło.
HU OSA 300-60: RFE/RL Research Institute, Romanian Unit, 1946-1995
Collected at the Romanian Unit of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfond contains press clippings, news agency releases, research papers and background analyses, Information Items, state radio transcripts, émigré publications, and letters. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in Socialist Romania can be found in Subject Files.
HU OSA 300-80: RFE/RL Research Institute, Soviet Red Archives, 1953-1994
Collected at the Soviet Red Archives of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains clippings from Soviet periodicals available abroad, a wide range of Soviet magazines and various scientific journals, state radio transcripts and informational media summaries, Soviet news agency releases, samizdat materials, Western publications, and Radio Liberty transcripts, and other research materials. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in the Soviet Union can be found in Old Code Subject Files, New Code Subject Files, New Code Republics Files, and Non-USSR Biographical Files.
HU OSA 300-85: RFE/RL Research Institute, Samizdat Archives, 1953-1994
Collected at the Samizdat Archives of the RFE/RL Research Institute, the subfonds contains samizdat files (petitions, open letters, etc.) that were later published by the Radios in their samizdat bulletins (Materialy Samizdata and Sobranie dokumentov samizdata, and, relating to Samizdat issues, clipping collections, state radio transcripts and informational media summaries, Soviet news agency releases, Western publications, Radio Liberty transcripts, and other research materials. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture in the Soviet Union can be found in Published Samizdat, Subject Files, Biographical Files, Subject Files related to Unpublished Samizdat, Unpublished Samizdat Sorted Chronologically, and New York Office Files Relating to Samizdat.
HU OSA 300-120: RFE/RL Research Institute, Western Press Archives, 1949-1994
The subfonds contains materials clippings mainly from Western press sources. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in Biographical Files (series 1, 2, 7), Subject Files, and Subject Files Relating to Eastern Europe.
HU OSA 205-4: Records of the Open Media Research Institute, Information Service Department, 1952-1997
Collected at the Information Service Department of the Open Media Research Institute, the subfonds contains reference files collected from diverse sources of information. Materials concerning Jewish history and culture can be found in Subject Files on Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Hungary, as well as in the Former Soviet Union Archives, and Subject Files Created by WSP (What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency).
HU OSA 297: Broadcast Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1953-2014
The fonds contains newsreels and special broadcasts, talk shows, literary readings and radio plays, samizdat reviews, liturgies, music programs, interviews, and press-conferences, broadcast by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Russian Service. The more than 500 audio records related to Jewish history and culture include recordings of radio programs like Shalom (later renamed Jewish Cultural and Social Life), Letters and Documents, Documents and People, or Human Rights.
HU OSA 300-1: RFE/RL Research Institute, General Records, 1951-1979
The series HU OSA 300-1-2 Information Items comprises microfilmed transcripts and summaries of interviews conducted in Western refugee camps and immigration offices with immigrants and defectors from the Eastern Bloc. Materials can be found related to Jewish history and culture in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Israel, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Sweden, the Soviet Union, and Moldavia.
HU OSA 300-3: RFE/RL Research Institute, German Affairs, 1953-1973
The subfonds contains material on the political, economic, social and cultural life in the German Democratic Republic, and includes Subject Files on Jews, Germans in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
HU OSA 300-81: RFE/RL Research Institute, Monitoring Unit, 1979-1995
The subfonds contains textual and video materials related to economic, political, social and cultural issues in the USSR and, after its collapse, in Russia and newly independent states. The series HU OSA 300-81-9 Video Recordings of Soviet and Russian Television Programs includes, amont others, a documentary on Babyn Yar, TV debates on the status of Jews in the USSR and on Soviet Jews emigrating to the US.
HU OSA 318: Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 1968-2007
The archive of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, the fonds contains, related to Jewish history and culture, press releases and clippings, media monitoring materials, memos, correspondence, reports and background materials from other human rights organizations, arranged in Country Files
HU OSA 305 Fekete Doboz Alapítvány Video Archive, 1988-2008
The fonds contains documentary films, news programs, and raw footage created by the Black Box Foundation, providing alternative news and independent coverage about the Hungarian transition process between 1988 and 1996. The material related to Jewish history and culture include documentary films on Jews emigrating from Leningrad, Orthodox Jews in Hungary, and anti-Semitism.
HU OSA 320-1 Hungarian Home Movie Collection, 1910-1996
Collected by the Private Photo and Film Foundation, the series contains amateur films, including home movies related to Jews in Hungary during WWII, and Jewish traditions in general.
HU OSA 410: Radu Stan Collection on Jewish Communities in Romania, 1919-1944
Collected by Radu Stan, the fonds contains documents on the citizenship, education, emigration, and persecution of Jewish communities in Romania, obtained from Romanian archives.
HU OSA 419 Júlia Vajda Totalitarianism and Holocaust Interview Collection, 2004-2016
The fond contains over 350 interviews with Holocaust survivors in Hungary, conducted as part of a research project lead by Julia Vajda in the framework of the National Research and Development Program between 2004 and 2007, and after the closure of the project until 2012.
Yellow-Star Houses, 2014
An interactive map (a curated collection) launched in 2014 by the Blinken OSA Archivum to collect recollections concerning the so-called “yellow-star houses” of Budapest. In the summer of 1944, having nearly finished deporting Jews from the countryside, Hungarian political leaders decided it was now the turn of Budapest Jews to be forcibly expelled from their homes. On June 16, the mayor of Budapest issued a decree that marked out almost 2,000 apartment buildings in the city, into which 220,000 targeted individuals were obliged to move. The interactive map shows the locations of the former yellow-star houses, and what they look like today. The map is supplementedBlinken OSA Film Library, 1934-2022 with numerous documents, including the relevant decrees, a list of houses, a chronology, a glossary, and recollections.
Blinken OSA Film Library, 1934-2022
A non-circulating Film Library holding an unparalleled range of classic and rare fiction and nonfiction works in almost 100 languages, among them documentary, propaganda, and educational films related to Soviet and East European history and culture. The collection includes almost 100 films related to Jewish history and human rights.
