Justice for victims killed during Communism The Union of Victims of Communist Tyranny UOKG, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience and the Saxon Memorial Foundation for the Remembrance of Victims of Political Tyranny invited to a press conference which…
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EU commemoration event and ministerial conference on 23 August 2016 in Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava, 24 August 2016. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience was a partner at this year’s EU-wide European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes hosted by the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union…
Travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” opens at summer university in Tusnád, Romania
Tusnád, 20 July 2016. The Platform’s international travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” was opened in Tusnád, Romania, at the summer university organised by leaders of the 1989 revolution in Hungary and Romania together with a number of non-governmental organisations. The…
“JUSTICE 2.0” on 24 June 2016 at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany
Freiburg, 24 June 2016. At a colloquium with the title Verbrechen unter kommunistischer Herrschaft: Aufarbeitung und Umgang ( Crimes committed under Communist rule: Coming to terms and dealing with them) held at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal…
Competition for a proposal of a pan-European memorial to the victims of totalitarianism in Brussels
The Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic on behalf of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience and the European Shoah Legacy Institute cordially invite students aged…
President of Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute visits Platform office
Prague, 10 May 2016. Mr Ondrej Krajňák, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute visited the Platform office in Prague today. With Platform Managing Director Neela Winkelmann they discussed topics of common interest, the work…
Discussion “Memory and trauma” at the Václav Havel Library in Prague, 3 May 2016
Prague, 3 May 2016. At the occasion of the presentation of a new anthology Paměť a trauma (“Memory and trauma”) edited by Alexander Kratochvil from the Institute for Czech Literature, a public discussion was staged at the Václav Havel Library…