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…
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…
Prague, 8 November – On 7 November the Appeal for a Nuremberg of Communism (Bukovsky-Cristin document) was introduced in the Senate of the Italian Republic in Rome by Prof. Renato Cristin, Prof. Roberto de Mattei, Dr. Dario Fertilio, senator Adolfo Urso, senator Lucio Malan and Vito Comencini.…
Shkodra, 5 November – The Platform’s international travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” was opened at the Site of Witness and Memory museum in Shkodra, Albania on 4 November. The opening ceremony was held by Mrs Voltana Ademi, Mayor of Skhodra,…
Prague, 3 Oct – The President of the Platform Łukasz Kamiński participated in the international conference “How to deal with the past? Memory in a post-truth world” («Як домовитися з минулим? Пам’ять у світі постправди») on 3 October 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He and…
Gdynia, Prague, 30 September – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience was invited for the first time to participate as a co-organising partner for the newly established international competition in the international part of the 11th NNW (Unruly, Undeterred,…
Gdynia, 27 September – The Platform project “Justice 2.0” was introduced on 27 September during the 11th Film Festival – Unruly, Undeterred, Cursed (NNW), which took place on 26 – 29 September 2019 in Gdynia, Poland, during the discussion panel…
Prague, 25 September – The Platform welcomes the new European Parliament resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe, which was adopted on 19 September 2019 in Strasbourg. The resolution was supported by 535 votes in favour,…
Prague, 24 September – The new educational exhibition Multimedia Guide to Totalitarianism 1948–1989 launched across the several cities in the Czech Republic. A number of sociological research studies show that a major part of the young generation has no historical knowledge of…
