Berlin, 25 January – The recent development and history of the Platform project “Justice 2.0” was introduced by the Platform Managing Director Mr Peter Rendek at the international working conference about the victims on the Iron Curtain, which took place on 24…
Brussels, 22 January – Platform Executive Board Member Mr Zsolt Szilágyi met with the Regional Minister of Justice of Valencia, Ms Gabriela Bravo and a Spanish socialist MEP, Ms Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández on 22 January in Brussels. In the name of…
Prague, 17 January – This week marks the 50th anniversary of the self-immolation of Czech student Jan Palach on Wenceslas Square in Prague. His act was a poltical protest against the apathy in society and the end of the Prague Spring resulting…
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…
Press Release Ljubljana / Prague, 14 November 2018 The Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was awarded on 14 November in Ljubljana at the National Assembly during the international conference The Dark Side of the Moon: Dealing…
Press release Prague, Ljubljana – 16 November 2018. At its 8th annual Council of Members held on 13-15 November 2018 in Ljubljana and Bled, Slovenia, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience elected a new Managing Director and admitted four new…
Gdynia, 2 October 2018 – Dr. Andreja Valič Zver, the Director of the Slovenian Study Centre for National Reconciliation and the member of the Executive Board of the Platform, along with Gunārs Nāgels, the director of The Occupation Museum Association of…
Prague, 31 August – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Italian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (“Per non dimenticare. Memoria del totalitarismo in Europa“). After the Czech, English, French,…
New publication: Proceedings of the international conference which was organised by the Platform and Prof. Stéphane Courtois, author and editor of the “Black Book of Communism”. The conference was organised and dedicated to the dark legacy of Communism and Communist dictatorships and was held…
