22 May, Warsaw. Platform Executive Board member Mrs Andreja Valič Zver altogether with the Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek visited the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. A meeting with the IPN deputy president Mr Mateusz Szpytma; Mr Paweł Blaževicz, acting…
Prague / Pezinok, 3 May 2019.The international organization the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in cooperation with Slovak NGO Living Memory launched its international reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe”presentations at secondary schools in eight regions…
PRESS RELEASE Prague, 2 April – On this day ten years ago (2 April 2009), the European Parliament adopted a resolution on “European Conscience and Totalitarianism”, which, besides other things, called for establishing the Platform of European Memory and Conscience to provide…
Prague, 31 January. In a decision issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic on 28 January 2019, compensation was granted to a former East German refugee who was badly injured in 1982 by the Czechoslovak Border Guard in…
Cheb, 11 December 2018. The District Court in Cheb (West Bohemia) has rehabilitated four citizens of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) who, during the old regime, had attempted to escape through Czechoslovakia to West Germany, were detained by members…
Prague, 10 December – To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience is introducing a new educational tool for…
Kyiv, 24 November – Dr Łukasz Kamiński, President of the Platform, took part in the events marking the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor on an invitation from the Prime Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. On 22…
