16 May, Prague – Representatives of Taiwanese government agency, the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee (CIPAS), led by Mr Lin Feng-Jenq, Chairperson, visited the Platform office in Prague. They met with the Platform Managing Director Mr. Peter Rendek and Mr. Pavel Žáček, a Czech…
Presentation of anti-totalitarian reader in Slovak schools
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Prague / Pezinok, 3 May 2019.The international organization the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in cooperation with Slovak NGO Living Memory launched its international reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe”presentations at secondary schools in eight regions…
Platform representatives meet in Prague
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10 April, Prague – The common working meeting of the Platform Executive Board and the Supervisory Board took place at the office in Prague on 10 April. The Executive Board members Ms Andreja Valič Zver, Mr Toomas Hiio and the…
The anniversary of the European Parliament resolution on “European Conscience and Totalitarianism”
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PRESS RELEASE Prague, 2 April – On this day ten years ago (2 April 2009), the European Parliament adopted a resolution on “European Conscience and Totalitarianism”, which, besides other things, called for establishing the Platform of European Memory and Conscience to provide…
Justice 2.0 working meeting in Wroclaw on 21-22 March 2019
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Wroclaw, 22 March 2019 – The representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia convened in Wroclaw on 21-22 March 2019 for a working meeting of the JUSTICE 2.0 project.…
Remembering the victims of Communism in Oradea
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Oradea/Nagyvárad, 25 February 2019 – The 100 million victims of Communism were remembered at a memorial plaque placed on the wall of the inner court of the Partium Christian University on 25 February in Oradea city, Romania. The commemoration event was…
Commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Communist coup in Prague
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Prague, 25 February 2019. The Platform and its Czech members, the Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic, the Association of Former Soldiers of the Auxilliary Technical Battallions – Military Forced Labour Camps with Seat in Prague and Prague…
German embassy representative visits the Platform office in Prague on 15 February
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Prague, 15 February – The Platform office in Prague was visited by Dr Guido Müntel, the Head of the press office of German embassy on 15 February. He and the Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek discussed ongoing projects, especially…
Platform met representatives of the House of European History in Brussels
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Brussels, 14 February – On 14 February 2019 the Platform Executive Board members Ms Andreja Valič Zver, Mr Zsolt Szilágyi, Mr Wolfgang-Christian Fuchs and Mr Toomas Hiio with the President Mr Lukasz Kamiński, the Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek and the main editor of the report on the House of European History (HEH) exhibition Mr Paweł Ukielski (Deputy…
Working meetings in Budapest
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Budapest, 12–13 February. The President of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience Mr Łukasz Kamiński altogether with member of the Executive Board Mr Zsolt Szilágyi and Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek visited Budapest on 12 to 13 February. During the first working day in Hungary,…
The Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic for the first time compensated a former German Democratic Republic citizen for injury caused by the Czechoslovak Border Guards
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Prague, 31 January. In a decision issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic on 28 January 2019, compensation was granted to a former East German refugee who was badly injured in 1982 by the Czechoslovak Border Guard in…