Our archive holds examples of envelopes made in internment camps and by underground publishing houses, often featuring distinctive stamps. In the 1980s, such envelopes indicated resistance to correspondence censorship.

We hold hundreds of pins, primarily from union organizations, as well as commemorative, departmental, community, independent, and from religious movements. Together, these pins illustrate the scale and diversity of anticommunist movements in the 1980s.

A collection of printing appliances and materials documenting the second circulation (samizdat). The Center holds mechanical and manual duplicators, typewriters, stencils, enlargers, rollers, chemical recipes, and tracing paper from the 1980s.

Postage stamps of the “Solidarność" movement, created as a protest against the officially censored postal system. The images often referenced events banned from the history of Poland taught in schools.