Prague, 13 December 2017. The Bavarian state criminal investigation office Munich (LKA München) is starting the investigation of the killings of German citizens on the Iron Curtain in former Czechoslovakia. The respective criminal complaint was filed by the Platform of…
Platform Reader presented at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
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Brno, 11 December – At the seminar Reconciliation with the Totalitarian Past held at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Education in Brno, the Platform managing director Neela Winkelmann presented to tutors and students two major learning tools produced by the…
German Ambassador visits Platform office
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Prague, 4 December 2017. The new German ambassador to the Czech Republic H.E. Christoph Israng visited the Platform office in Prague. Together with Managing Director Dr. Neela Winkelmann they discussed ongoing Platform projects, including the international competition for a memorial for the…
Platform elects new President and Executive Board and admits four new Member institutions from four countries
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Vilnius / Prague, 1 December 2017. At its annual Council of Members held on 28-30 November 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience elected a new President and Executive Board and admitted four new institutions from…
Platform calls for a broad debate and a change of the permanent exhibition of the House of European History
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Prague, 20 November 2017. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience presents a critical report on the House of European History, a project of the European Parliament in Brussels. The report is a result of a study visit of 19…
Memorandum from the conference ”100 Years of Communism. History and Memory” held on 8-9 November 2017 in Paris, France
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100 years ago, the Bolshevik revolution introduced a murderous utopia. It eradicated the established social and moral order, ushering in a century of totalitarianism in the world. Social engineering which aimed to take total control over people was forcibly and…
Czech première: Across the Iron Curtain
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The Platform of European Memory and Conscience launches its human rights educational game in the Czech Republic Prague, 20 November 2017 – On 16 November, the eve of the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the Platform of European Memory and…
Platform Managing Director Neela Winkelmann receives Masaryk Award of the Czech and Slovak Association of Canada on 8 November 2017
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Paris, 8 November 2017. At the occasion of the conference “100 Years of Communism. History and Memory” held in Paris, France on 8-9 November 2017, Platform Managing Director Dr. Neela Winkelmann, née Heyrovská received the Masaryk Award of the Czech…
Call on former East German refugees arrested in Czechoslovakia until 1989 to apply for rehabilitation and compensation
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Berlin / Prague, 6 November 2017. On the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall 28 years ago, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience and the German Union of Victims of Communist Tyranny UOKG call…
A critical article in German FAZ on the new exhibition in the House of European History
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On 6 November 2017, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published a critical article (Worauf können die Europäer stolz sein?) on the new exhibition in the House of European history in Brussel by the historian and the Deputy Director of the Warszaw Uprising…
Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience 2017 goes to Mr Ilmi Umerov, Crimean Tatar leader in Ukraine
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Prague / Kyiv, 27 October 2017, (8 November 2017). This year’s Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was awarded to Mr Ilmi Umerov, deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People in Crimea, dissident and political…