Prague, 25 January – The Platform’s travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” continues in 2022 to other destinations throughout Portugal, after Porto, Lisbon and the University of Coimbra. Thanks to the Platform’s partner organisation Instituto +Liberdade, the first-ever overview of available statistics…
On 28 December 2021, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to shut down the Russian International Memorial organisation. In addition to earlier accusations of violation of the “foreign agent” legislation, the prosecutor accused Memorial of “creating a false…
Prague, 21 December 2021– The new second edition of the educational reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe” edited by Neela Winkelmann and Gillian Purves is being published in English, Czech and Albanian. A Spanish version will follow soon. The purpose…
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience strongly supports the nomination of Gdańsk Shipyard as the birthplace of “Solidarity” and a symbol of the Fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe (Poland) for the UNESCO World Heritage List. We also…
The Platform welcomes today’s precedent-setting ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic that the Office for the investigation and documentation of the crimes of Communism cannot commission an attestation about the health of the prosecuted former Communist leaders…
Prague, 16 November – At a meeting of the Platform’s Council of Members in Prague on 12 November, the member organisations mandated the President and the Executive Board to prepare and issue a Platform statement on the current situation in…
Prague, 15 November – Ten years ago on 14 October 2011, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was founded in Prague by 20 founding members from 12 EU Member States. Ten years later, the Platform anniversary annual Council of…
Prague, 10 November– The Platform is an official partner of the second annual 20th Century documentary film festival ‘Unbroken and Sacrificed‘ which is organised by the Twentieth Century Memorial Museum in Prague from 10 to 14 November 2021. The main…
Prague, 3 November – The Platform (PEMC) Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek, Project Coordinator Ms Anabela Žigová and Mr Donald Lawrence Ritter, the Trustee and the Member of the Board of Directors and Ms Kristina Olney, the Director of Government…
Prague, 29 October – The Platform representatives Mr Łukasz Kamiński (President), Marek Mutor, Paweł Ukielski, Toomas Hiio (Executive Board members) and Wojciech Bednarski (international project coordinator) participated at the 9th European Remembrance Symposium on 26 – 28 October in Tallinn,…
Prague/Budapest, 28 October – On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Platform together with its partner the Hungarian Committee of National Remembrance, opened its exhibitions “Century of Martyrs” and “European Gulag” in Budapest. The…
