Prague, 28 October – The exhibition of the Platform “European Gulag” was opened on 27 October at the Museum Historik Kombetar in Tirana. The ceremony was opened by Mr. Çelo Hoxha, Director of the Institute for the Study of Communist Crimes and Consequences in Albania (ISKK) altogether with Slovak Ambassador Mr Albín Otruba, Polish Ambassador Ms M. Zuchniak-Pazdan and a representative of the Bulgarian Embassy in Tirana. The Platform was represented by Ms Jonilla Godole, Member of the Executive Board and CEO of the Institute for Democracy, Media and Culture. The exhibition is the result of our intensive collaboration with ISKK.
Today the history of the “European Gulag” has been somewhat forgotten, and not only in countries that did not experience communism. The forced labour camps and their victims have faded from memory in the former Eastern Bloc too. No material traces of most of them remain. Only a handful of former camps now house museums. With this exhibition, we aim to restore the memory of thousands of victims of communist labour camps and their suffering.
“European Gulag” is an international project created by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in cooperation with the Committee of National Remembrance in Hungary, the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, the Institute for the Study of Communist Crimes and their Consequences in Albania, the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland, the Museum of Occupation of Latvia, the Institute of National Remembrance in Slovakia and the Pitești Prison Museum in Romania.
The exhibition was created thanks to the financial support of the Polska Fundacja Narodowa
