Prague, 16 June 2014. The two-day international conference Legacy of Totalitarianism Today organised by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience and hosted by Ms Miluše Horská, Vice-President of the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic, brought to light worrying…
Award of the Prize of the Platform to Mr Mustafa Dzhemilev
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Prague, 12 June 2014. About 120 people, participants of the international conference Legacy of Totalitarianism Today, members of the diplomatic corps, public and media attended a ceremony at Museum Kampa in Prague during which Mr Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean…
Photogallery – Legacy of Totalitarianism Today
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Thursday 12 June 2014 Welcome Keynote speech – Sofi Oksanen Session 1: Quality of Democracy and rule of law after 25 years – have we established them strong enough? Session 2: The legacy of witnesses of totalitarian persecution Session 3:…
Conference “Legacy of Totalitarianism Today“ on 12-13 June 2014 in the Senate, Parliament of the Czech Republic in Prague
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Prague, 10 June 2014. The third annual conference of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience will be hosted by Senate Vice-President Ms Miluše Horská under the auspices of Czech Minister of Culture Mr Daniel Herman. Among its highlights will…
Platform participates in consultation with UN Special Rapporteur
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Berlin, 15 May 2014. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence Mr Pablo de Greiff is conducting a series of regional consultations in order to reach out to all relevant stakeholders.…
Leader of the Crimean Tatar People Mr Mustafa Dzhemilev to be awarded Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience
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Göteborg / Prague, 8 May 2014. The Member institutions and organisations of the Platform decided as of 30 April 2014 to award the first Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience to the leader of the Crimean Tatar…
“Juliana litt unter den Nazis wie unter den Sowjets” – Die Welt, 8 April 2014
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Dresden / Prague, 8 April 2014. Juliana Zarchi from Lithuania and Benita Plezere-Eglite from Latvia, two of the survivors of 20th century totalitarianism whose life stories are depicted in the Platform reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe”,…
Platform welcomes new open history policy in Ukraine
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Lviv / Prague, 31 March 2014. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience welcomes the appointment of the new Director of the National Memory Institute of Ukraine, which signals a turn toward an open history policy. The National Memory Institute…
Answer from EU Council and Commission to Platform on Ukraine
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Göteborg / Brussels, 11 March 2014. Platform President Göran Lindblad received an answer to the letter of 7 February 2014 with an urgent call to send a permanent EU observer mission to Ukraine, which was addressed to EU Council President…
Damit wir nicht vergessen – official presentation in Berlin on 1 April 2014
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Dresden, 10 March 2014. The Platform Reader “Damit wir nicht vergessen. Erinnerung and den Totalitarismus in Europa” will be presented at the Saxon State representation in Berlin, Germany, on 1 April. Two of the protagonists of the Reader`s 30 stories,…
70% of older secondary school students in the Czech Republic do not think that enough has been done to come to terms with totalitarianism
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Prague, 10 March 2014. Seventy percent of older secondary school students in the Czech Republic do not think that the Nazi and Communist totalitarianisms have been overcome sufficiently. This is a result of a survey conducted by the Platform of…