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Conference “Modern Forms of Commemoration of Totalitarian Genocide Places” on 14-15 May in Warsaw

May 9, 2013
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The Platform of European Memory and Conscience, the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, the Warsaw Rising Museum and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague are organizing an international conference “Modern Forms of Commemoration of Totalitarian Genocide Places” which will be...

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Platform calls on democratic forces in the Czech Republic to uphold the Act on the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

April 9, 2013
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Erfurt, 9 April 2013. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is concerned by the recent developments in the Czech Republic where the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is being targeted by a political campaign which is aimed against its state-of-the-art digitization...

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Platform mourns loss of Zdeněk Boháč, Chairman of Prague Academic Club 48 and initiator of Declaration 2012

December 5, 2012
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Platform mourns loss of Zdeněk Boháč, Chairman of Prague Academic Club 48 and initiator of Declaration 2012

Prague, 5 December 2012. Dr. Zdeněk Boháč, Chairman of the Prague Academic Club 48 and initiator of the international appeal of former political prisoners and victims of Communism “Declaration 2012“, passed away on 25 November 2012. Zdeněk Boháč fought and survived both Nazism and...

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Time is running out for preserving memory of totalitarianism

November 10, 2012
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Berlin, 9 November 2012. Commemorating the victims of the “Reichskristallnacht” 74 years ago and the victims of Communism on the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience calls on the European community to create a...

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Annual meeting of the Platform in Berlin, 8-9 November 2012

November 9, 2012
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Annual meeting of the Platform in Berlin, 8-9 November 2012

Berlin, 8 November 2012. At the first annual Council of Members meeting in Berlin at the Hohenschönhausen Memorial, the Platform Members unanimously approved the membership applications of further eight new Members – institutions and organisations from 5 EU Member States, Moldova and Canada. This...

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Opening of the travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe”

September 18, 2012
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Prague/Bratislava, 18 September 2012. An audience of about 60 people, representatives of partner institutions, associations of victims of totalitarianism from Poland, Germany, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as persons of public life and members of the press, took part in...

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