Oświęcim, 27 January – The Platform (PEMC) president Dr. Łukasz Kamiński and the Executive Board Member Dr. Wolfgang-Christian Fuchs took part during the official commemoration event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz on 27…
Prague, 9 January – The first official working meeting between representatives of the Platform and the newly established Museum of 20th Century Memory in Prague took place in the Platform office on 9 January. The Platform managing director Mr Peter…
Prague, 7 January – How to better understand the current disinformation phenomenon, fake news, alternative news sites, conspiracy theories, etc.? The online project Czechoslovakia in the 1948 – 1989 (dis)information war, provides a unique view on this topic from the perspective of little-known…
Prague, 16 December – The international conference “Road to Freedom” took place in Timișoara, Romania as a part of the commemoration events marking the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Romanian revolution. While in other countries (Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia),…
Timişoara, 13 December – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Hungarian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (Hogy el ne feledjük. A totalitarizmus emlékezete Európában). It is so far the 8th…
Prague, 10 December – In December 2019, 70 years has passed since the cruel re-education programme in Pitești prison started. It was described by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn as “the most terrible act of barbarism in the contemporary world”. The anniversary was…
Prague, Wroclaw – On 26 November a prosecution was initiated in the Czech Republic against persons responsible for murders committed along the Iron Curtain. Among the suspects are former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Milouš Jakeš, former Prime…
Press release Prague, 27 November – The Office of the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism of the Police of the Czech Republic officially launched a prosecution on 26 November 2019 against the former high-ranking Communist politburo members for…
Mikulov, Prague, 23 November – The commemoration act and the international conference “The Iron Curtain inside us” accompanied the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain event which was held on 22 November in Mikulov, Southern Bohemia. The…
Zagreb, Prague, 8 November – The Platform Executive Board member and the director of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation in Slovenia Dr. Andreja Valič Zver attended the 8th Congress of the Croatian Society of Victimology which was held on 8 –…
Prague, 12 November – At its annual Council of Members meeting held on 3 – 6 November in Tirana, Albania, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience updated its Statute and re-elected the President, the Executive Board representatives and one…
