Berlin, 9 November 2012. Commemorating the victims of the “Reichskristallnacht” 74 years ago and the victims of Communism on the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience calls on the European…
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Opening of the travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe”
Prague/Bratislava, 18 September 2012. An audience of about 60 people, representatives of partner institutions, associations of victims of totalitarianism from Poland, Germany, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as persons of public life and members of the…
European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Totalitarianism commemorated in Budapest
Budapest, 23 August 2012. During a ceremony commemorating the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarianism in Budapest, Hungary, the President of the Platform signed an agreement on the creation of a European museum of totalitarianism. The document expresses…
Platform appoints Board of Trustees and elects 8 new Members
Prague, 29 June, 2012. The Members of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience approved the Membership applications of 8 new Member institutions and organisations from 4 EU Member States and the Ukraine. The new Members of the Platform are:…
Platform President commemorates Baltic deportations of 1941
Strasbourg, 13 June, 2012. President of the Platform Göran Lindblad addressed a ceremony in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to comemorate the 1941 mass deportations from the Baltic countries, when more than 30,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were…
Platform will seek establishment of a supranational court for international crimes committed by Communists
Prague/Brussels, 7 June, 2012. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is calling for the creation of a supranational judicial body for the gravest crimes committed by the Communist dictatorships. The call was announced at the conclusion of the international…
Invitation – Conference “Legal Settlement of Communist Crimes”, 5 June 2012, European Parliament, Brussels
Prague/Brussels, 17 May, 2012. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is inviting to an international conference “Legal Settlement of Communist Crimes“ which will be held on 5 June, 2012 in the European Parliament in Brussels. Raising the issue…