<p>Throughout the twentieth century, Central and Eastern European diasporic communities across North America established a wide array of archives—from private and small organizational collections to robust institutional repositories—that served as critical sites of cultural practice, diasporic mobilization, and political resistance. This article introduces the concept of diasporic counter archives to rethink these archival spaces not merely as repositories of records, but as dynamic and reflexive sites of cultural practice that both reflect and activate diasporic life. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from critical archival studies, transnational memory, and sociology of knowledge, the article examines collecting and record-keeping as forms of cultural practice through which dispersed communities reckon with memories of violence and displacement while negotiating the inner diasporic identities. The article calls for a broader scholarly engagement with diasporic archives as dynamic and contested sites of cultural practice embedded in shifting politics, epistemic hierarchies, and intersectional social structures. In doing so, it offers a framework for understanding archives not only as repositories of the past but as agents in the ongoing negotiations of identity, systems of values, and authority across time and space.</p>