Prague, 3 March – For the first time the Platform of European Memory and Conscience presented its international Reader Lest We Forget (Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe) and the board game (Across the Iron Curtain) to students of different types of secondary schools in…
The 72nd anniversary of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia commemorated in Prague
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Prague, 25 February 2020. The Platform president Łukasz Kamiński together with Managing Director Peter Rendek and Platform expert team member Mr Miroslav Lehký commemorated the anniversary of the Communist coup of 25 February 1948 at a solemn gathering on Nerudova Street in Prague. At this site,…
Platform’s travelling exhibition opened in Tirana
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Tirana/Prague, 13 February – The Platform’s travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” was opened in Tirana, Albania. The Albanian version of the exhibition was officially presented in the very centre of Tirana, at the Shanderberg Square on 13 February. It enjoys…
“We have a dark premonition because we know” – the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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Oświęcim, 27 January – The Platform (PEMC) president Dr. Łukasz Kamiński and the Executive Board Member Dr. Wolfgang-Christian Fuchs took part during the official commemoration event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz on 27…
Representatives of the Museum of 20th Century Memory visited the Platform
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Prague, 9 January – The first official working meeting between representatives of the Platform and the newly established Museum of 20th Century Memory in Prague took place in the Platform office on 9 January. The Platform managing director Mr Peter…
Czechoslovakia in the 1948 – 1989 (dis)information war
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Prague, 7 January – How to better understand the current disinformation phenomenon, fake news, alternative news sites, conspiracy theories, etc.? The online project Czechoslovakia in the 1948 – 1989 (dis)information war, provides a unique view on this topic from the perspective of little-known…
The international conference “Road to Freedom” took place in Timişoara on 13 – 14 December
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Prague, 16 December – The international conference “Road to Freedom” took place in Timișoara, Romania as a part of the commemoration events marking the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Romanian revolution. While in other countries (Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia),…
Hungarian version of the reader Lest We Forget released
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Timişoara, 13 December – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Hungarian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (Hogy el ne feledjük. A totalitarizmus emlékezete Európában). It is so far the 8th…
70th anniversary of Pitești Communist experiment
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Prague, 10 December – In December 2019, 70 years has passed since the cruel re-education programme in Pitești prison started. It was described by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn as “the most terrible act of barbarism in the contemporary world”. The anniversary was…
Justice 2.0 – a database of the Iron Curtain victims
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Prague, Wroclaw – On 26 November a prosecution was initiated in the Czech Republic against persons responsible for murders committed along the Iron Curtain. Among the suspects are former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Milouš Jakeš, former Prime…
Czech Police launch investigation into former high-ranking Communist officials for shootings on the borders
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Press release Prague, 27 November – The Office of the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism of the Police of the Czech Republic officially launched a prosecution on 26 November 2019 against the former high-ranking Communist politburo members for…