The international traveling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe“, funded by the European Union, has been launched by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience as the first international educational and awareness-raising tool in Bratislava in 2012. Now it is traveling around Europe and has recently been hosted by the Irish Department of Justice and Equality at the European Parliament Office in Dublin. Ireland is the thirteenth country where the exhibition depicting the statistics of civilian victims of the gravest crimes of Nazism/Fascism and Communism from thirteen countries of Europe, as well as the statistics of the prosecution of perpetrators, is presented on several canvas panels as well as display boards, and accompanied by documentary films and brochures. Previously “Totalitarianism in Europe” has also been displayed in Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, the European Parliament in Brussels, Romania, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Latvia.
We are delighted to announce that the St. Kilian’s German School Dublin will host the Platform’s traveling exhibition in January. The exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” will open on Monday 5th of January 2015 until Friday, 8th of January 2015 in St. Kilian’s German School Dublin, Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14. All Welcome to visit the Exhibition.
Get a first look at the exhibition here.
Note for Editors:
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is an international non-governmental organisation bringing together currently 48 institutions and organisations from 18 countries – 13 EU Member States (Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria), Ukraine, Moldova, Iceland, Canada and the United States of America, active in research, documentation, awareness raising and education about the totalitarian regimes which befell Europe in the 20th century.
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience was founded in 2011. Since then, it has organised international conferences, meetings and events, prepared an international travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” and a reader for secondary school students on totalitarianism in Europe “Lest We Forget” in four languages (EN, DE, FR, CZ). The Platform has also created an award to personalities who have set a mark in resisting and working against totalitarianism in Europe. The recipient of the first Prize of the Platform in 2014 was Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar People.
