Documentary exhibitions are another important form of AIDSSH's approach in the function of information on former Security documents and civic education. They are organized by presenting to citizens and interest groups, authentic archival documents according to selected topics and assisting with specialized staff.

"The 45th anniversary of the Spaç revolt", documentary exhibition with files/documents created by the former State Security for Ward 313, Spaç, on May 17, 2018. The files were declassified and made public for the first time. During the activity, citizens were informed and application forms were filled out for recognition with files.

On June 13, 2018, 40 formal investigative-judicial and accomplice files were declassified and made public for the first time, for 46 identified victims. During the activity developed in Tirana, citizens were informed and application forms were filled out for recognition with files.

On June 26, 2018, a documentary exhibition titled "Communist Persecution in the Konispoli area" was organized. A documentary exhibition with files/documents created by the former State Security for the Konispol area, were made public for the first time in Tirana, and 46 identified victims files were exhibited for the local community, in the central square of the city, in a special organization, in cooperation with Konispol Municipality.

The documentary exhibition "Communist persecution in the area of Tepelena" was organized in Tepelena on August 23, 2018, with the participation of the local community. In this activity, documents and security files documenting the communist persecution of the participants in the Zhapokika uprising, the local clergy, the Bença camp, the internees were exhibited; fugitives, those killed at the border, gangs of saboteurs and others.

Exhibition in Tirana and Memaliaj of archival materials of AIDSSH, October 5-6, for the anti-communist resistance of Zhapokika, in cooperation with counterpart institutions, the local government and the local community.

Exhibition "On the work of STASI in GDR", the Authority in cooperation with the German File Authority and KAS, October 22, 2018, within the "Days of Remembrance".

The exhibition "Monitor, terrorize, persecute" at the "Petro Nini Luarasi" gymnasium, a conversation with former prisoners of Burrel and the parallels between the two communist realities.

On November 18, 2021, the first activity of the Dialogue of Tirana in the dictatorship took place, as a collaboration of the Authority, the "Tirana" Association, the Institute of History, ASA, and the European University of Tirana, with the support of the Municipality of Tirana, the exhibition "Tirana in the eyes of State Security", documentary exhibition and presentation of the evidence and studies project.

On August 30, 2021, the Authority presented the exhibition for the missing in communism "State Security own words", with data from the historians of 19 branches of the Security throughout the country.

On February 14, 2022 - The Authority for Information on Former State Security Documents and the International Commission for Missing Persons, nor cooperation with the Municipality of Tepelenë, ICMP-AIDSSH in the framework of the project “Rising public awareness of transitional justice and reconciliation: the disappeared of communism”, supported by the EU and the Swiss Embassy, ​​inaugurated the permanent, informative exhibition on the internment camp in Tepelena.

The permanent informative exhibition was prepared with the material researched by the Institute of History and on archival data on the internees in the barbed wire camp of Tepelena. Also, the sketches of Lek Pervizi are included in the exhibition. They present the life in the camp in photographic portraits, skilfully realized by Lek Pervizi, interned in Tepelene.

February 17, 2022, The Authority for Information on Former State Security Documents and the International Commission for Missing Persons in cooperation with the Municipal Council of Maliq, in the framework of ICMP-AIDSSH project "Rising public awareness of transitional justice and reconciliation: the disappeared of communism”, supported by the EU and the Swiss Embassy, ​​inaugurated the permanent informative exhibition on the former camp in Maliq.

The permanent, informative outdoor exhibition has been prepared based on the research of archival data on the convicts in the Orman-Poiani labor camp of Vloçishti. The information is presented in Albanian and English for all those who want to get to know the history of the area and be informed about its past.

February 24, 2022, The Authority for Information on the Documents of the former State Security presented the book with testimonies for the disappeared and the virtual exhibition "Security in its own words", in the new premises, near the Skënderbej garrison. Rruga e Dibra, The ceremony concluded the ICMP-AIDSSH project "Rising public awareness of transitional justice and reconciliation: the disappeared of communism", supported by the EU and the Swiss Embassy.

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Virtual exhibitions

STATE SECURITY’S OWN WORDS - “Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced....” Milan Kundera, “The unbearable lightness of being”.

This exhibition, opened on the International Day of the Disappeared, aims to tell the story of the victims of communism, limiting itself to the victims that come out from historical records, identified - through various names, known or unknown, - the total summarizes the methods of persecution used by the State Security Service over the years, i.e. methods used to capture opponents, from the invention of diseases, to the ‘combinations’ accepted by the Security staff themselves, through “legends” that imply the spread of false news, “lightning-like investigations” where are accepted “the traps” “beatings”, therefore shedding light, on the recruitment ways of collaborators done under coercion, through pressure of the arrest of family members, or looking the child tied upside down in a cell.

This exhibition is not their complete story, but it is the version of the story, written by him and accepted by State Security Service. In the documents displayed or cited, the terminology used for political opponents, arrested, or killed, is harsh. They are labeled as criminals, spies, traitors to the homeland, degenerate or with low morals, therefore reading this documentation requires very special care and awareness due to the fact that they contain tough layers of communist ideology.

The missing still remain black spots ... Black spots are endless expectations with no future yet to come. This exhibition strives to give all the nuances of black, from south to north, to present with the documents of the Security Service itself, hundreds of human destinies in the same place. This exhibition is to understand that black spots are still black..

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artsteps | ZHDUKUR - SIGURIMI NË FJALËT E VETA (EKSPOZITË VIRTUALE)