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 the Czech Republic, Albania, Romania and France, bringing the total number of Members of...
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 experts from 9 countries which took place in August this year. The conclusion of...
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 brutally implemented. People were deprived of their basic personal freedoms, the rule of law...
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 Conscience held in Prague a Czech première of a unique board game Across the...
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 and Slovak Association of Canada (ČSSK) from ČSSK Vice-Chairman Miloš Šuchma. The Prize was...
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 upon former refugees from East Germany who were arrested attempting to cross the Czechoslovak...
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 Museum Pawel Ukielski.
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 prisoner in the USSR and in Russia-occupied Crimea who is just being released from...
Prague / Warsaw, 23 October 2017. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has prepared a critical report on the House of European History, a project of the European Parliament in Brussels inaugurated earlier this year. Based on grave shortcomings, a clear ideological bias towards Marxism and historical misinterpretations, especially regarding European values and...
