Time is running out for preserving memory of totalitarianism

by dir • November 10, 2012

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…

by dir • November 9, 2012

Berlin, 8 November 2012. At the first annual Council of Members meeting in Berlin at the Hohenschönhausen Memorial, the Platform Members unanimously approved the membership applications of further eight new Members – institutions and organisations from 5 EU Member States,…

by dir • September 18, 2012

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…

by dir • September 6, 2012

Prague, 10 September 2012. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (CZ) and the Ján Langoš Foundation (SK) cordially invite to the solemn opening of the international travelling exhibition Totalitarianism in Europe…

by dir • August 23, 2012

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…

by dir • July 1, 2012

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:…

by dir • June 14, 2012

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…

by dir • June 12, 2012

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Platform will seek establishment of a supranational court for international crimes committed by Communists

by dir • June 7, 2012

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…

by dir • June 5, 2012

International Conference 5 June, 2012 European Parliament, Brussels Under the auspices of Ms Sandra Kalniete (LV), Mr László Tőkés (RO), Mr Tunne Kelam (EE), Mr Milan Zver (SI), Mr Vytautas Landsbergis (LT), Mr György Schöpflin (HU), Mr József Szájer (HU), Mr…

by dir • May 21, 2012

(“Lost, inaccessible, suppressed. The restrictive way of dealing with the Stasi files in Eastern Europe shows that in many places, the power of the old Communists has not been broken yet.”) The article deals with the establishment of the Platform,…