More Than a Museum: How the Silesian Centre of Freedom and Solidarity Brings History to Life Silesian Centre for Freedom and Solidarity A student’s reflection on one of Poland’s most powerful exhibitions on resistance, remembrance and freedom This review was…
Prague, 28 May – The annual General Assembly of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience took place in Katowice on 26 May 2026, hosted in cooperation with the Silesian Centre for Freedom and Solidarity (Śląskie Centrum Wolności i Solidarności).…
On 26 May, member organisations of the PEMC commemorated one of the darkest chapters of communist-era Poland — the killing of nine miners at the KWK Wujek coal mine in Katowice, which took place 45 years ago on 16 December…
On 25 May 2026, an international conference titled “From Heroes to Remembrance: How Do We Build Memory Today?” took place at the Silesian Centre for Freedom and Solidarity in Katowice, Poland. The conference as a part of the PEMC annual…
Prague, May 2026 – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) with the Embassy of Lithuania in Prague co-organised a side event at Globsec Forum 2026 in Prague, addressing one of the most pressing challenges at the intersection of…
Prague/Brussels – The Platform team, consisting of Mr. Marek Mutor (president), Mr. Wojciech Bednarski, and Mr. Tszwai So, met last week in Brussels with representatives of EU institutions to intensify the initiative to build a Pan-European Memorial to the Victims…
In recent days (Nov 18), representatives of the Pan-European Memorial Committee (PEMC) participated in the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops. The observance began with a tribute at…
Prague,17 November – Today marks the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the peaceful civic movement that began on 17 November 1989 and led to the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia. What started as a student commemoration in Prague quickly…
Bratislava, 4 November 2025 – The Platform, together with its Slovak partner, the Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti národa), inaugurated the exhibition European Gulag at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava on 4 November. The exhibition was…
