Prague, 25 January – Mr Ondrej Krajňák, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute and Mr Pavol Kossey, Director of the Chairman`s Secretariat visited the Platform office in Prague. They held discussions with Platform Managing Director Ms Neela Winkelmann about common projects and further cooperation. The Nation’s Memory Institute was admitted...
Prague, 20 January 2017. Ms Naděžda Kavalírová, Chairwoman of the Czech Confederation of Political Prisoners died today aged 93. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience mourns the passing of the long-term leader of its largest Czech Member organisation, a courageous, passionate and dedicated champion of coming to terms with the dark legacy of...
Prague, 30 December 2016. Two thirds of Czech secondary school students do not think that coming to terms with totalitarianism in the country has been sufficient. This is the result of a long-term survey by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience carried out in the years 2013, 2015 and 2016 among 2,500 respondents...
Timisoara, 20 December 2016. Neela Winkelmann, Managing Director of the Platform presented actual progress in the “JUSTICE 2.0″ project in Timisoara, Romania. Together with representatives of the Timisoara Society they discussed the unpunished crimes of Communism committed on Romanian soil during the Communist dictatorship. The presentation was a part of an annual commemoration event of the...
Prague, 14 December 2016. The German 1st TV channel ARD aired a documentary on the work of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience last night. The film depicts the flight of 18-year-old East German Hartmut Tautz who was attacked by Czechoslovak border guard dogs and died in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1986 and presents...
Bratislava, 10 December 2016 – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience representatives visited Bratislava, Slovakia at the occasion of Jan Langos Foundation Prize presentation which took place on 10 December 2016 at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University. The laureate of the international award this year was Czech philosopher, translator, university teacher and journalist Prof. Jan Sokol....
Prague/Sofia , 5 December 2016. The President of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience sent an open letter to the President and the members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, expressing support of the Platform for a new decommunisation amendment currently under discussion. The Council of Members of the Platform...
Prague – 1 December 2016 – For the third time this year, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience presented its international Reader “Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe“ at different types of secondary schools in all regions of the Czech Republic, kindly supported this time by a grant from the Ministry of...
