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The collection reflects the activity of the Romanian-German writer and journalist William Totok, persecuted by the communist authorities for the criticism towards Ceaușescu’s political regime expressed in his literary texts. The William Totok private collection comprises mainly books, literary manuscripts, drafts of academic papers, audio and video documents, and correspondence.

Wojciech Zamecznik's collection represents the early stage of Polish school of poster design. Zamecznik himself has an interesting biography - ex-Auschwitz prisoner, active member of Association of Polish Artists and Designers, who created posters for artistic and political purposes. The collection shows the tension between the official language of socialist posters and private photographs, more intimate and portraying the everyday life.

Feministička zbirka „Žena i društvo“ u Centru za ženske studije u Zagrebu sastoji se od jednoga registratora u kojemu se nalaze rukopisi ciklusa predavanja koje je u sezoni 1982./1983. organizirala sekcija „Žena i društvo“. Na predavanjima se raspravljalo o ženskom pitanju u povijesnom kontekstu, ali i o problematici ženskoga pitanja u socijalističkom samoupravljanju i marksističkoj teoriji. Zbirka svjedoči angažmanu jednog manjeg broja intelektualaca koji su nastojali žensko pitanje staviti u fokus javnosti, te time utjecati na poboljšanje položaja žena u Jugoslaviji, dok su vlasti isticale kako je to nepotrebno jer su smatrali da je žensko pitanje riješeno unutar marksizma.  

The Women’s Activism in Kosovo collection belongs to the Kosovo Oral History Initiative, and contains Kosovan women's vivid personal stories, which often intersect with broader historic events within Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1999. It depicts women's specific forms of engagement and resistance in protests against the Yugoslav regime, as well as their fight for women’s rights. The Women’s Activism collection offers a unique online archive of oral records, giving visibility and permanence to a history of women’s experience, which has been consistently marginalized, if not forgotten. To date, the collection contains thirty interviews with women activists, of which twenty-five are Albanian, three are Serbian, and two are of other nationality.