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From: KALAMOS BOOKS <kalamosbooks@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/27
Subject: [EXLIBRIS-L] Save Hungary's Archives
To: EXLIBRIS-L@listserv.indiana.edu
Furore about the removal and destruction of Archival files in Hungary
You can use the URL to find the petition to preserve them.t
http://hungarianarchives.com/the-issues/
January 18, 2011 · 9:33 pm
Canadian academics protest plans to remove archival documents
Last week we mentioned that Professor Lubomyr Luciuk of the Royal
Military College of Canada sent a letter to the Embassy of the
Republic of Hungary in Ottawa protesting plans to remove original
primary source material from the Historical Archives of Hungarian
State Security in Budapest. Since then, a wide range of academics
across North America and Europe have signed the petition associated
with this website and many have expressed their views on this issue.
In total, 83 scholars, researchers, writers, artists and community
activists have signed the petition thus far. A selection of the
comments appearing on the petition are published below:
Judith Szapor (Faculty Lecturer, McGill University):
"As someone who has conducted research in a number of Hungarian
archives and is planning to do that in the future, I see the proposed
legislation as a dangerous precedent that would lead to the erosion of
public archival collections."
Gregory S. Kealey, (Provost/Vice President, University of New Brunswick):
"As a historian of security and intelligence systems our ability to
know and learn from the past is dependent on archival materials. This
is a terrible precedent for any national state to even consider."
M. Mark Stolarik (Chair in Slovak History and Culture, University of Ottawa):
"Hungary seems to be backsliding into its totalitarian past. The
current government, rather than promoting democracy after 40 years of
communist rule, is aping the communists in its desire to erase the
past. The European Union should immediately strip Hungary of its
presidency of the EU and impose economic sanctions on the country
until it mends its ways."
Jeremy Hurdis (University of Ottawa):
"All history is worth keeping, and even the most vile of regimes must
be remembered and allowed to remain as a subject of study. Only by
maintaining these documents can such a regime be understood enough not
only to prevent any return to it, but also to better understand what
failures in our liberal-democratic society had allowed the regime to
rise in the first place. These archives must be maintained."
Gillian Thompson (Ret. professor, University of New Brunswick):
"Governments have a responsibility to citizens of this and future
generations to preserve official records, however embarrassing, for
the sake of what may be learned from them. This means retaining full
series of administrative documents. How else can we have any hope of
reconstructing what has happened: what individuals and whole cultures
have experienced and endured?"
Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach (Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo):
"One should not be allowed to sanitize the past for any reason, let
alone for specious political agendas. Please allow the records to
stand for the benefit of future generations."
Emanuele Sica (University of Waterloo):
"The decision of the Hungarian government is simply ridiculous and if
passed, will set a dangerous precedent."
Jan George Frajkor (Ret. professor, Carleton University):
"The media repression proposed in Hungary is totally unacceptable to
any civilized democratic society. It cannot be reconciled with any
European Union membership, nor any Christian, western, ideology. Even
worse are the government's practices of keeping no minutes of cabinet
meetings, and proposing to destroy archives outlining some of the
world's most important events of all time, not just of our current
times. Please add my name and opinion to any petition, to any
organization, which works to prevent these atrocities.
For your information as to credentials, I was a journalist for 25
years with Canadian news agencies and both major radio and TV
networks; a professor of journalism who also taught in free Slovakia;
and one who spoke and who took part in Alliance of Universities for
Democracy and European Student conferences in Budapest, Prague,
Warsaw, Nitra and other areas after the fall of totalitarianism. I do
not wish it to return."
Please sign the petition if you have not do so already, in the hope
that solidarity among academics across borders and overseas will
convince the Government of Hungary to re-think its current proposal
for the future of the country's secret police files.
Christopher Adam | christopheradam@sympatico.ca
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