Metadata: Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute, German Affairs
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Vera és Donald Blinken Nyílt Társadalom Archívum
- Postal address:
- Arany János u. 32, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
- Phone number:
- 36-1-327-3250
- Web address:
- https://osaarchivum.org/
- Email:
- info@osaarchivum.org
- Reference number:
- Sub-fond HU OSA 300-3
- Title:
- Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute, German Affairs
- Creator/accumulator:
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute
- Date(s):
- 1953/1973
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 5.63 linear meters (69 Archival boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual Material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The sub-fond contains 1 archival series that covers a broad scope of political, economic, social and cultural life in the German Democratic Republic between the years 1953 and 1973. The sub-fond and the series result from RFE's effort to monitor East German print, radio and television media and compile reports and analytical papers based on these.
The sub-fond contains 1 folder related to Jewish history and culture stored in the archival series HU OSA 300-3-1 East German Subject Files. The folder informs about Jews and Germans as ethnic minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia between 1956 and 1971.
- Archival history:
- The sub-fond was transferred to the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in May 1995 under the initial mandate to preserve over 2.5 linear kilometers of documents accumulated in the archives of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The sub-fond HU OSA 300-3 German Affairs collects items and reports compiled by RFE/RL RI specialists in Munich headquarters about developments in the GDR, 1953-1973. The archival material was processed and revised at the Blinken OSA in 2003.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- System of arrangement:
- The sub-fond includes 1 archival series systematized according to legacy structure of this sub-fond.
- Access, restrictions:
- Reproduction is allowed for non-commercial purposes.
- Finding aids:
- The catalog (folders/items level) is available online.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://catalog.osaarchivum.org/catalog/jDenenZL
- Yerusha Network member:
- Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
- Author of the description:
- Anastasia Felcher; Blinken OSA; 2022 based on Pavol Šalamon, Tibor Szigeti, James Wilson; Blinken OSA; 2003.