Prague, 8 January 2021 – On Thursday, the Czech Police launched a criminal prosecution of Jan Fojtík, a former member of the presidency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The 92-year-old man is accused of abusing the authority…
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Call for Applications: Internship at the Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Title: Intern – Platform of European Memory and Conscience Preferred starting date: on mutual agreement Location: Prague, Czech Republic Reports To: Managing Director The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is a non-profit international non-governmental organisation – an interest association…
Milestone: Czech police declares 11 deceased politburo members fully responsible for the killings of refugees on the Iron Curtain! What about the surviving ones?
Prague, 2 December 2020. In its milestone decision published last week, the Czech Office for Documentation and Investigation of Communist Crimes of the Police of the Czech Republic declares that 11 deceased members of the 1980s’ politburo of the Communist…
Romanian version of the reader Lest We Forget released
Prague/Timişoara, 26 November – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Romanian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (Să nu uităm. Amintirea totalitarismului în Europa). It is so far the 9th language version…
Difficult road to justice for the Communist crimes – Season 31: Episode 1001: “Nice try”
Prague, 16 November 2020. Thirty-one years after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience has uncovered yet another attempt to thwart the prosecution of Communist crimes. Something is rotten in the running criminal investigation against…
Number of former GDR refugees rehabilitated by Czech and Slovak courts topping 50 – call for further applications!
Belarusian opposition leader Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to be awarded 2020 Prize of the Platform
Prague, 2 October 2020. The Member institutions and organisations of the Platform have decided to award the 2020 Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience to the Belarusian opposition leader Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Ms Tsikhanouskaya will receive the…