On 2 – 3 March 2015 the Board of the Platform – Göran Lindblad, Paweł Ukielski, Siegfried Reiprich, Zsolt Szilágyi and Neela Winkelmann visited Budapest. They were hosted by the Hungarian Committee of National Remembrance, Member of the Platform. They…
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Platform commemorates anniversary of Communist coup of 1948 in Prague
Platform Member organizations commemorated the 67th anniversary of the Communist coup in former Czechoslovakia. There was a solemn gathering on 25 February 2015 at the site just below the Prague castle where a student protest march was beaten up in 1948. The…
Platform Board meets EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
Brussels, 11 December 2014. Platform Managing Director Neela Winkelmann and Executive Board members Siegfried Reiprich and Zsolt Szilágyi met with Commissioner Tibor Navracsics in Brussels today. Together, they discussed the awareness raising and education work of the Platform on EU…
Irish Minister of State speaks about crimes of the past
Dublin, 2 December 2014. The Minister of State with special responsibility for New Communities, Culture and Equality, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD, today launched “Totalitarianism in Europe”, an international travelling exhibition by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, at the…
Memorial to the victims of the Iron Curtain inaugurated by Platform Member in the Czech Republic
Prague, 22 November 2014. Platform Member organisation Memory (Paměť) inaugurated a memorial yesterday outside the town of Mikulov, Czech Republic to people killed on the Iron Curtain between 1948-1989. The Platform congratulates the colleagues on this accomplishment which was supported…
Discussion “Searching for the Czech Identity” in Prague on 12 November 2014
Together with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Center for contemporary Art DOX, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience staged a public discussion on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague with the title “Searching for…
Memorial Concert on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain in Europe
Photographs from the Memorial concert at the home of the Czech Philharmonic, the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, on Saturday 8 November 2014, the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event…