Prague, 31 March – The new documentary “Europe’s Deadliest Borders – The Forgotten Victims of the Cold War” premiered on German television stations Arte and ARD. The documentary depicts the stories of former East German citizens who attempted to cross…
Prague, 11 March – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) president Dr. Marek Mutor, Board of Trustees member Dr. Łukasz Kamiński and exhibition curator Mr Wojciech Bednarski attended the 2022 Memory Days festival (17 – 26 February 2022) in Tirana, Albania. The…
Prague, 2 February 2022 – In the Czech Republic the case against Lubomír Štrougal and Vratislav Vajnar for the deaths on the Iron Curtain has been interrupted as new assessments of their health are awaited. However, according to Christian Härtl, the…
Prague, 25 January – The Platform’s travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” continues in 2022 to other destinations throughout Portugal, after Porto, Lisbon and the University of Coimbra. Thanks to the Platform’s partner organisation Instituto +Liberdade, the first-ever overview of available statistics…
The Platform welcomes today’s precedent-setting ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic that the Office for the investigation and documentation of the crimes of Communism cannot commission an attestation about the health of the prosecuted former Communist leaders…
Prague, 16 November – At a meeting of the Platform’s Council of Members in Prague on 12 November, the member organisations mandated the President and the Executive Board to prepare and issue a Platform statement on the current situation in…
Prague, 15 November – Ten years ago on 14 October 2011, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was founded in Prague by 20 founding members from 12 EU Member States. Ten years later, the Platform anniversary annual Council of…
