The Platform of European Memory and Conscience strongly supports the nomination of Gdańsk Shipyard as the birthplace of “Solidarity” and a symbol of the Fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe (Poland) for the UNESCO World Heritage List. We also…
The Platform thanks the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic for its precedent-setting decision and for reopening the road to justice for the victims of Lubomír Štrougal and Vratislav Vajnar
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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…
Statement on the Russian International Memorial organisation
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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…
Platform held an international conference, elected a new president, and celebrated its 10th anniversary during its meeting in Prague
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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…
Platform is a partner of the international festival of documentary films ‘Unbroken and Sacrificed’ in Prague
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Prague, 10 November– The Platform is an official partner of the second annual 20th Century documentary film festival ‘Unbroken and Sacrificed‘ which is organised by the Twentieth Century Memorial Museum in Prague from 10 to 14 November 2021. The main…
Meeting with the representatives of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, USA
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Prague, 3 November – The Platform (PEMC) Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek, Project Coordinator Ms Anabela Žigová and Mr Donald Lawrence Ritter, the Trustee and the Member of the Board of Directors and Ms Kristina Olney, the Director of Government…
Platform at the 9th European Remembrance Symposium in Estonia
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Prague, 29 October – The Platform representatives Mr Łukasz Kamiński (President), Marek Mutor, Paweł Ukielski, Toomas Hiio (Executive Board members) and Wojciech Bednarski (international project coordinator) participated at the 9th European Remembrance Symposium on 26 – 28 October in Tallinn,…
On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, the Platform opened two exhibitions in Budapest
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Prague/Budapest, 28 October – On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Platform together with its partner the Hungarian Committee of National Remembrance, opened its exhibitions “Century of Martyrs” and “European Gulag” in Budapest. The…
Online meeting with the Informal Remembrance Group at the European Parliament
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Prague/Brussels, 14 October – The Platform representatives met online with the Members of the European Parliament (EP) from the Informal group on European Remembrance of the European Parliament during its session on 14 October 2021. The discussion was led by the…
UK partner visited Platform
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Prague, 14 October – Mr James Bartholomew, the director of the Museum of Communist Terror in London visited the Platform in Prague. He and the Platform managing director Mr Peter Rendek discussed the current mutual cooperation in the field of education of the…
Platform exhibition opened at the oldest university in Portugal
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Prague, 14 October – The Platform’s international travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” was opened for the public and students at the University of Coimbra in Portugal by the Platform president Dr Łukasz Kamiński, the dean of the Faculty of Law Prof. Jónatas Machado and the…