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Keçmezi-Basha has also collected and edited court documents. One that is considered to be a highlight of this collection provides information on the judicial proceedings against the Prizren League group in 1950. 

The historical Prizren League was an Albanian political organization officially founded on 10 of June 1878 in the historic center of Prizren, Kosovo. One of the main demands of the League was the unification of all claimed Albanian territories within the Ottoman Empire into one vilayet. In the second half of the twentieth century, illegal organizations in regions of Kosovo (including Dukagjini/Metohija) used this same name to demonstrate an association with the historical Prizren League of 1878. The modern Prizren League was guided by famous national figures and intellectuals of the period including Ymer Berisha, Halim Spahiu, Selman Riza, Gjon Serreqi, among others. 

It should be noted that this illegal organization’s program mainly aimed at the unification of what it considered “Albanian lands” into one state. In the eyes of the Yugoslav regime, the illegal group threatened the social order of SFRY, which was the main reason for their persecution.

According to documents of the District Court of Pristina, the Prizren League was established during the summer of 1949. The trial was held over 24–26 July 1950, at the same court. Dušan Stanić s head of the jury and Čedomir Ilić and Muharrem Agja as judges. This trial was based on the Public Prosecution's indictment number 79/50 from June 27, 1950, which was presented by Bora Stanojević. 
The judge declared the accused guilty and sentenced them according to Article 13 of Yugoslav criminal law. The accused were found guilty of "planning to violently challenge the social order of the SFRY, forcefully joining Albania and returning capitalist order in SFRY".

The following activists were found guilty and sentenced:

1. Shaban Dërguti, a student of agronomy from Rahovec/Orahovac, born 1924. For involvement in illegal activities, sentenced to 20 years in prison.

2. Mustafa Nixha, a clerk from Prizren, born in Gjakova/Đakovica in 1918. He was married and a father of one. Sentenced to 20 years in prison.

3. Shaban Mazreku, a farmer from Suharekë/Suva Reka, born in 1919. He was married. He was held in pre-trial detention since 19 February 1950. Sentenced to 101 years in prison.

4. Biter Dehalla, a craftsman from Prizren, born in 1929. Arrested on March 1, 1950. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.

The Croatian expatriate magazine Hrvatski dom, edited and published by Augustin Juretić in Switzerland, carried the article "The essence of the Cominform conflict – Tito," in its issue of 15 November 1950. The article is unsigned, and as with most unsigned articles in the magazine, its author is probably Juretić. The article described the essence of the conflict between Tito and Stalin, considering it through the prism of Marxist theory and practice. Juretić concluded that Tito carried out the last communist revolution in the world, which according to Marxist theory made him the leader of the world communist movement, i.e. placed him ahead of Stalin. As a warning to Western leaders, Juretić stated that in the future Tito could become more dangerous than Moscow, and that “the destruction of world communism will required Tito’s destruction as well” (Hrvatski dom, 15 November 1950, 3-6)

The manuscript of the article  is held in the Augustin Juretić Collection at the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome in Rome. The collection also contains a printed version of the article published in Hrvatski dom.

Južania: The Miracle of Redemption (Anton and Jaroslav Fabian - Július Chalupa). MC, 1984. Several songs were authored by Marcel Šiškovič. Other authors wanted to remain anonymous. The songs for the recording were provided by Zuzka Veselovská, one of the singers on the recording. The album was recorded in a modern arrangement and funky style (slap bass guitar), with very progressive sound and rhythm for that time.

László Jámbor (1874-1963), a Jesuit monk, was the most significant pastor in the history of the first decades of the independent Hungarian Jesuit Province. In 1950, he was deported to Kisvárda by the Communist authorities. After his release from prison, he lived with his relatives and in the Social Home of Pannonhalma. His autobiography (“My Memories”) is an important source on the Hungarian ecclesiastical history of the 20th century. Volume I contains the story of his life from 1874 to 1926. He wrote in broad strokes about his life until he joined the order (1890), then the manuscript includes the story of his studies year by year until 1908, then the text becomes a diary-like memorial. Volume II recounts Jámbor's life from 1926 to 1943, and volume III is about the period between 1944 and 1954. There is a letter at the end of the manuscript from 1955. The material is in the Jesuit Archives, in the 1. box of the 26. department of the VI. fond.

Photographing the filming of the docu-fiction Gyuri Cséplő was a formative experience for István Jávor. While his relationship with the director, Pál Schiffer, was not particularly good and he was only a substitute for the photographer who originally had been chosen, the undertaking was one of the great moments of his life. Jávor had never seen such misery and poverty before he visited Németfalu, a village in Zala county. The experience deeply shocked him. As he recalled in 2010, “there was the Gypsy neighborhood, people living in unimaginable poverty, shanties, naked children, disease and death everywhere, and suddenly I was there.”. Along with the experience itself, the scientific and cultural milieu also had a strong effect on him: these people noticed and paid attention to the social problems. Among the pathbreakers was István Kemény, one of the prominent sociologists of the era and an occasional advisor to Schiffer. The photograph Jávor took of Kemény during the shooting, with the researcher staring into the camera, became iconic. The work photos of Gyuri Cséplő offer glimpses into Jávor’s experiences with the people of the village. According to him, he was surprised by how much he enjoyed their company, instead of feeling reluctance to mingle. Jávor considers this experience one that greatly affected of his later career.