Partners
Václav Havel Library
Václav Havel Library - collects, researches, disseminates, promotes and advocates the spiritual, literary and political legacy of a great figure of modern European history. It also focuses on people, events and phenomena related to the legacy of Václav Havel and strives to place them in the context of the times and of the present.
Link to the website: www.vaclavhavel.cz
Národní filmový archiv
Národní filmový archiv is an active member of notable international associations (FIAF, IASA, founding member of ACE). It is one of the 13 institutions participating on European Commission project FORWARD (Framework for a EU-wide Audiovisual Orphan Works Registry). At the national level NFA coordinates the Creative Europe Desk and the Media Sub-programme, focuses on research projects in cooperation with Czech universities (in both technical and artistic fields), and has an extensive internship programme.
Link to the website: nfa.cz
European Solidarity Center
The mission of the European Solidarity Center is:
- To commemorate, maintain and popularise the heritage and message of the Solidarity movement and the anti-communist democratic opposition in Poland and throughout the world.
- To inspire new cultural, civic, trade union, local government, national and European initiatives with a universal dimension.
- To share the achievements of the peaceful struggle for freedom, justice, democracy and human rights with those who are deprived of them To actively take part in the building of the European identity and new international order.
Link to the website: www.ecs.gda.pl
The Nation’s Memory Institute
The Nation’s Memory Institute (NMI) is a public-law institution founded by the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 553/2002 Coll. Its mission is to provide the access to yet undisclosed records of activities of the repressive organs of the period of oppression 1939-1989. Main roles of the NMI are to provide complete and unbiased evaluation and research of the totalitarian regimes of the past century, to publish and make these information accessible to the public through different media, as well as to analyse the reasons and ways of losing the freedom. Moreover, the NMI seeks the best ways of presenting the real values of democracy and protection of human rights by pointing out to crimes being committed on innocent people during Nazi and Communist era. It does so through recording and archiving oral history testimonies and using them for various purposes as: documentary film production, internet publishing of biographic victims´ portraits, media reports, etc.
Link to the website: www.upn.gov.sk
National Széchényi Library
The National Széchényi Library has always been highly valued and eminently placed in the system of Hungarian research institutions, and is renowned for promoting high-level education.
One of its special departments is the Collection of Historical Interviews, the audiovisual collection of the national library. In the second part of the 20th century the idea emerged that in recording the memories of witnesses in audio and video we should not only cater for the needs of today but, as far as possible, document the history of our century for the researchers of tomorrow as well. The Collection of Historical Interviews, taking into account the demands of new data media,considers its main task to create video-memoirs, life interviews with the principal figures of Hungarian history, public life and culture since 1985. Our collection of video interviews has a number of over 1300.
Link to the website: www.oszk.hu
Bautzner Straße Memorial in Dresden
The Bautzner Straße Memorial is the former remand prison and regional office of the East German Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in Dresden. Until 1989, people were arrested for political reasons and they were interrogated by the Stasi. The memorial includes also a soviet underground prison. 1945 – 1953 it was used by the Soviet occupation force for political prisoners.
The association “Erkenntnis durch Erinnerung e. V.” (“Recognition by Remembrance e. V.”) is the operator of this memorial site. The memorial works with witnesses - those affected by political persecution and imprisonment 1945-1989 and witnesses of the Peaceful Revolution 1989.
The Bautzner Straße Memorial recalls the victims of political persecution in the communist dictatorship 1945-1989, collects and documents the experience of contemporary witnesses, strengthens the antitotalitarian consensus in society through historical and political education. In addition, interesting offers like innovative exhibitions, workshops and events are created for national and international visitors.
Link to the website: bautzner-strasse-dresden.de
Donors
Visegrad Fund
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
The International Visegrad Fund is an international donor organization established by the governments of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). Its aim is to support closer understanding and cooperation among people in the V4 region, as well as between the V4 region and other countries and regions, particularly in the non-EU neighbourhood of the Eastern Partnership countries and in the Western Balkans. The fund does fosters the development of civil society by financing joint grant projects and by awarding university scholarships and artist residencies. The fund’s annual budget of €8 million consists of equal contributions by the V4 governments.
Europe for citizens
The aim of the Europe for Citizens Programme is to contribute to citizens' understanding of the EU, its history and diversity and to encourage the democratic participation of citizens at EU level. The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Czech Ministry of Culture
In 2019, the Czech Ministry of Culture supported financially the Národní filmový archiv, Prague in order to work at the digitalisation of the material.
Support us
If you would like to support the project by means of a financial donation you can do so via the VHL’s PayPal account or by bank transfer to:
ČSOB a. s., Na Poříčí 24, 115 20 Praha 1
- Crown account number 7077 7077 / 0300 CZK
- Euro account number 7755 7755 / 0300 EUR
If an individual makes a donation of over CZK 1,000, or if a company makes a donation of over CZK 2,000, in one calendar year we will create for you a donation contract confirming the amount of the donation involved; the donor can use this to reduce their tax base in compliance with the law on taxation. For Link to the website, contact othereurope@vaclavhavel.cz