Dresden / Prague, 8 April 2014. Juliana Zarchi from Lithuania and Benita Plezere-Eglite from Latvia, two of the survivors of 20th century totalitarianism whose life stories are depicted in the Platform reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe”, attended the presentation of the German version of the Reader at the Saxon state...
Lviv / Prague, 31 March 2014. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience welcomes the appointment of the new Director of the National Memory Institute of Ukraine, which signals a turn toward an open history policy. The National Memory Institute of Ukraine is to...
Göteborg / Brussels, 11 March 2014. Platform President Göran Lindblad received an answer to the letter of 7 February 2014 with an urgent call to send a permanent EU observer mission to Ukraine, which was addressed to EU Council President Herman van Rompuy, the...
Dresden, 10 March 2014. The Platform Reader “Damit wir nicht vergessen. Erinnerung and den Totalitarismus in Europa” will be presented at the Saxon State representation in Berlin, Germany, on 1 April. Two of the protagonists of the Reader`s 30 stories, Ms Juliana Zarchi (Lithuania)...
Prague, 10 March 2014. Seventy percent of older secondary school students in the Czech Republic do not think that the Nazi and Communist totalitarianisms have been overcome sufficiently. This is a result of a survey conducted by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience...
Prague, 4 March 2014. Representatives of the Platform – President Göran Lindblad, Managing Director Neela Winkelmann and members of the Executive Board Siegfried Reiprich and Paweł Ukielski met Mr Bohuslav Sobotka, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Mr Vladimír Špidla, the Prime Minister`s chief...
