Prague, 23 June – After 30 years German Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records ceased operations and new offices were established. The German Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) ceased operations after 30 years of activity on 17 June…
Prague, 15 June – On 14 June 1941, the first wave of mass deportations swept across the Soviet-occupied Baltic States, leading to the forced mass resettlement of tens of thousands of people. This was part of dozens of deportation campaigns…
Prague, 9 June – Belarusian opposition leader Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was awarded the 2020 Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) today in Prague during her official 4-day visit to the Czech Republic. The Member institutions and…
Prague, 26 May – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) with its partners has launched the new online exhibition Century of Martyrs. The history of the 20th century was marked by the rise of totalitarian ideologies and regimes…
Prague, Brussels – 25 May – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience, together with the Informal group on European Remembrance of the European Parliament, an informal inter-party group, and following the 19 September 2019 European Parliament resolution on the…
Prague, 4 May – The supervisory public prosecutor agrees with the criminal prosecution of the former top representative of Communist Czechoslovakia, Jan Fojtík (93), who was accused by police officers from the special Office for the Documentation and Investigation of…
Prague, 31 March 2021 – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience expresses deep concern regarding the statement by Luljeta Bozo, Member of Parliament candidate in the forthcoming election in Albania, who said that Communism was a “constitutional dictatorship” and…
