Prague, 18 August – After 30 years of freedom for the majority of post-Communist Europe, it is very significant that democratic development brought to the people of those countries a much higher quality of life, freedoms and further possibilities, like participation…
Press Releases
Platform welcomes opening of an investigation into the killings on the former Iron Curtain in Romania
Prague, 14 August – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) welcomes the initiative led by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), which opens an investigation in Romania to…
The Platform’s Statement on Vladimir Putin’s Article about the 75th Anniversary of WWII
Prague, 8 July – Statement of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience on the recent article by Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II issued on 18 June in the media. In his…
First rehabilitation by a Czech court of refugee killed on the Iron Curtain
Prague, 27 May – On 25 May 2020 the Czech district court in Tachov fully rehabilitated Mr Gerhard Schmidt and his family. After the case of Hartmut Tautz, who was fully rehabilitated by a Slovak court in Bratislava in 2017, now the Czech Republic has…
Platform releases its online educational tool focusing on human rights
Prague, 12 May – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is releasing for students its online educational tool – a series of short educational videos in English illustrating violations of human rights by the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian…
Statement on the issue of the Lenin statue in Gelsenkirchen
Prague, 3 April – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience hereby expresses its concern regarding the announced erection of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. Lenin created the Soviet totalitarian state, killing millions during…
Platform Reader presentations in all regions in Slovakia
Prague, 3 March – For the first time the Platform of European Memory and Conscience presented its international Reader Lest We Forget (Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe) and the board game (Across the Iron Curtain) to students of different types of secondary schools in…