Prague, 28 November 2016. At the Council of Members held in Kyiv on 24-26 November 2016, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience admitted five new Member institutions and organisations – from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Albania. At the conclusion of the annual meeting, Platform delegates participated in the official commemoration...
NEW PUBLICATION: Proceedings of the international conference The Iron Curtain – Consequences of WWII held in Budapest on 5 – 6 May 2015 The objective of the conference contributions was to fill in some of the remaining white areas on the map of Europe’s history and to analyse how the post-WWII division of Europe was planned...
On 2 November 2016, German public TV channel MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) aired a short documentary film about the criminal complaint filed in Germany by the Platform against 67 representatives of Communist Czechoslovakia for the killing of 5 Germans on the Iron Curtain during Communism. The film can be viewed HERE .
Tirana, 27 October 2016. The Institute for Democracy, Media & Culture, together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and other partners organised the first Memory Days in Tirana, a week-long event dedicated to coming to terms with the Stalinist Communist past of Albania. Albanians suffered under the particularly brutal dictatorship of Enver Hoxha and his...
Prague, 14 October 2016 – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience celebrated its 5th anniversary with a birthday party in the Prague office. On 14 October 2011, the Platform was established as an accompanying event of the summit of the Visegrad Prime Ministers in Prague. Twenty governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations from...
Brussels, 7-8 October 2016. Platform President Göran Lindblad and members of the Board of Trustees, MEPs Milan Zver and Tunne Kelam met in Brussels with Chen Guangcheng, “the barefoot lawyer,” a Chinese civil rights advocate working for women’s rights, land rights, and the welfare of the poor. Mr Chen, who is blind from an...
ČESKÁ VERZE Conference invitation – EN Pozvánka na konferenci – CZ Milan Štěch, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Jan Hamáček, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Tibor Pető, Ambassador of Hungary to the Czech Republic and The Platform of European...
The British-French-Czech co-production film “Anthropoid” directed by Sean Ellis and starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan about the assassination attack on Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak exile resistance fighters on 27 May 1942 premiered on 1 July 2016 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, followed by a U.S. premiere on 12 August 2016, a...
Toronto / Prague, 31 August 2016. – A major international exhibition on European totalitarianism was launched at the Toronto commemoration of Black Ribbon Day, at 11am on August 27 at Toronto’s City Hall Rotunda. The exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe”, which will run until September 2, features 27 graphic panels, outlining the crimes of Nazi,...
