Prague, 23 February 2015. With the approaching 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience called on the Czech Prime Minister to urgently attend the issue of a mass grave in Prague containing the remains of victims of Nazism and Communism, including fighters of the resistance and children....
Prague, 23 December 2014. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience gratefully acknowledges the “spark that ignited the revolution“ in Romania in 1989, Rev. László Tökés who bravely stood up against Communist tyrant Nicolae Ceaușescu. Rev. László Tökés of the Reformed church in the...
JUST PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the international conference Legal Settlement of Communist Crimes held in Brussels on 5 June 2012 The conference was convened in response to growing calls for strengthened international justice formulated, e.g., in the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism of 3...
Ljubljana / Prague, 12 December 2014. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience welcomes the decision of the Slovenian Constitutional Court to free democratic opposition leader Janez Janša immediately from prison. After six years of legal proceedings which culminated in his imprisonment on fabricated...
Brussels, 11 December 2014. Platform Managing Director Neela Winkelmann and Executive Board members Siegfried Reiprich and Zsolt Szilágyi met with Commissioner Tibor Navracsics in Brussels today. Together, they discussed the awareness raising and education work of the Platform on EU level.
Former victims of Communism together with the Platform of European Memory and Conscience hereby call again on the German Government and Parliament to establish such a memorial. Berlin / Prague, 9 December 2014. The rise of former Communists back to power in the German...
