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Wednesday 12 April 2023 14.00 - 16.00
W-3 SPA01 Archives
Västra Hamngatan 25 AK2 135
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Don Lafreniere
Organizers: - Discussant: Ivo Zandhuis
Natália Váradi : The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in the KGB Documents Held in Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast
65 years after the Hungarian revolution of 1956 we can get new details about it from the documents held in the Ukrainian archives. The KGB documents held in the State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast give evidence about the deportation of ... (Show more)
65 years after the Hungarian revolution of 1956 we can get new details about it from the documents held in the Ukrainian archives. The KGB documents held in the State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast give evidence about the deportation of Hungarian revolutionists to the Soviet Union. More than one thousand people were held in the prison of Ukraine, in Transcarpathia region from December 1956 to January 1957.
From the political perspective Transcarpathia and its population had two main roles: on the one hand, the location served as a military terrain for the fights in Hungary. While on the other hand, the Soviet leadership often needed the help of the local Hungarian population for interpretation.
he Soviet political leadership, that led the crushing of the revolution, settled in Uzhgorod. There was even a military telephone exchange centre for the direct connection to Moscow and to Budapest. The Committee for State Security (KGB) leaders, and high-ranking officers delegated from Moscow to Transcarpathia constantly informed the Soviet Union Communist Party’s Central Committee and Secretariat. Even the Deputy Interior Minister, M. Holdkov arrived to Uzhgorod.
The so-called Kádár’s speech from Szolnok, Hungary which was the call of the Hungarian Revolutionary Working-Peasant Government to the Hungarian people, was also transmitted from Uzhgorod, Ukraine.
According to current facts, the Transcarpathian events of 1956 resorted to the Hungarian ethnicity’s actions and movements. Despite the fact that the majority of the Transcarpathian events were symbolic expression of solidarity, the currently processed archived documents revealed, that a sum of 46 people faced judiciary procedure. From which 18 were found guilty, and spent a total amount of 24 years in prison, eight more were expelled from university, and one person, Endre Geche, a protestant pastor, were killed during the interrogation.
Lots of data prove that members of the Hungarian State Security Authority escaped to Transcarpathia in the days of the revolution and some leaders as well. Among others: András Szobek, former minister of ingathering, János Matolcsi, former minister of agriculture, Oszkár Bethlen, the former editor of Szabad Nép (Free Folk), István Csáki, the former head of the MDP party school in Szolnok county, and the former deputy secretary of the Szolnok county MDP party committee, Dr. László Háy, the former chairman of the Hungarian National Bank, Zoltán Fodor, the head of the Department of International Affairs of the Hungarian Labour Party, and many others. The officers who stayed in Transcarpathia, took part in the interrogations of the Hungarians deported in 1956, in the prison of Uzhgorod. Among them was Gyorgy Vegh form Nyíregyhaza, the Head of the Department Hungarian State Security Authority. (Show less)

Douwe Zeldenrust : Managing Humanities Research Data and Collections, the Records Continuum Model and the Collections of the Meertens Institute
Access to data and collections is one of the most fundamental starting points for every humanities researcher. Increasingly, historians and social scientists use digital and digital-born information. Traditionally, these resources are managed by archivists using the ‘Life Cycle Model’ (LCM). This model was viewed as fundamental to archival ideas and ... (Show more)
Access to data and collections is one of the most fundamental starting points for every humanities researcher. Increasingly, historians and social scientists use digital and digital-born information. Traditionally, these resources are managed by archivists using the ‘Life Cycle Model’ (LCM). This model was viewed as fundamental to archival ideas and programs. But the need to work with digital records began to highlight key conceptual deficiencies in this paper-orientated model (Gilliland, 2017). This influenced the development of the ‘Records Continuum Model’ (RCM). This alternative model is more flexible and provides insight into the complex contexts in which (digital) documents are created and managed (McKemmish, 2017). It is progressively more adopted by governments e.g. and potentially provides a framework for managing resources of humanities institutions as well. But within that domain the LCM is still dominant. This paper will reflect on the potential and the issues of using the RCM as a concept for managing research data and collections of institutions within the humanities.

In order to make the first steps in introducing the RCM within this domain, two collections of the Meertens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) will be taken as a use case. The Meertens Institute has a rich tradition in studying language and culture in the Netherlands. Its vast collections have been gathered in a period of over 90 years (Zeldenrust, 2020). The use cases have been selected on the bases of two criteria. First, the collections need to have been brought together over a longer period of time in order to make the collection management policies and possible changes visible. Second, they need to contain both analog and digital items in order to explore the suitability of the RCM for the diverse characteristics of humanities collections. The first use case is the audio collection 'Dutch in the U.S.A.' accumulated by Jo Daan (Collection 2001). The second one is the toponymy collection accumulated by Rob Rentenaar (Collection 191). Lastly, the use of the RCM as a concept for managing research data and collection of institutions within the humanities is part of my PhD research. As this research is ongoing, this paper will show work in progress.

Resources:
Gilliland, Anne J. (2017). ‘Archival and Recordkeeping Traditions in the Multiverse and Their Importance for Researching’. In Anne J. Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J. Lau (eds.), Research in the Archival Multiverse. Monash University Publishing, pp 31-73.

McKemmish, Sue (2017). ‘Recordkeeping in the Continuum’. In: Anne J Gilliland, Sue McKemmish and Andrew J Lau (eds.), Research in the Archival Multiverse. Monash University Publishing, pp 122-160.

Zeldenrust, Douwe A. (2020). Verzamelen verandert, Collectiemanagement Plan Meertens Instituut 2020 - 2023. Amsterdam: Meertens Instituut.

Archives:
Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Collection ‘Jo Daan in Amerika’, 1966, Collection 2001.

Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Collection ‘vernoemingsnamen’, 1960 - 2000, Collection 191. (Show less)



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