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Patarei Prison exhibition area Communism is Prison starts its second season today, 22 May. It introduces the visitors to the complex’s diverse, nearly 200-year history in a preserved prison interior. The exposition has been supplemented considerably, but the prime focus…
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The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has compiled an interactive exhibition The ‘Liberator’ Arrived in cooperation with the National Library of Estonia. Exhibition can be seen HERE. The viewer gets an introduction to life in Estonia in 1944-1945, when the…
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The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has launched a full version of CommunistCrimes.org, a portal which provides information on the history of communist regimes and their crimes in Estonian, English and Russian. The aim of the portal is to deepen…
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Ceremonies and traditional candle lighting in town squares will not be held on 25 March on the anniversary of the 1949 March Deportation due to public health considerations. The NGOs organising the Commemoration Day ask candles to be lit on home windows in memory…
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Dear Friend! The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has postponed the book launch of “Priboi” Files: Articles and Documents of the March 1949 Deportation on Wednesday, 25 March at 16.00. We consider this step inevitable after acquainting ourselves with the recommendations…
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The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory announces an essay competition for secondary school students on the topic “The influence of the communist regime on my family and by extension – me”. On 17 June 1940, Soviet Union troops invaded independent Estonia. The…
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Over 200 European politicians, educational leaders, cultural and public figures have signed a petition to form an international court to condemn communist ideology and the regimes based on this doctrine as criminal and inhumane. The Board Member of the Estonian…
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The Institute of Historical Memory believes that the willingness of Urmas Sõõrumaa’s company to buy the former Patarei prison will save it from decay and will bring businesses to the area, while preserving the building as a significant memorial site,…
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International conference Necropolis of Communist Terror, organised in cooperation of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Memorial Research and Information Centre (St. Petersburg), will be held on 6.-7. November in Film Museum (Pirita tee 64, Tallinn). The event is…
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8-9 November 2019 The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989 was a historic event that deserves to be commemorated all over Europe and the Western world on its 30th anniversary. Just two months earlier, in August 1989,…
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The exhibition area Communism is Prison, opened in the east wing of the Patarei Prison and created by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, drew an audience of over 36 000 visitors from all over the world since its opening on…
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75 years will pass from the mass killing of Jews in Klooga camp, Estonia. On 18 September 2019, an international conference will take place to discuss these events at the former Patarei prison in Tallinn, Estonia (Kalaranna 28). 75 years…
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23 August 1939, when the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany signed an agreement with a secret protocol known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop (also Stalin-Hitler) Pact, is one of the most tragic days of the 20th century. This deal triggered the…
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On 14 June, the national day of mourning at 20.00 a free remembrance concert „Past. Present. Eternity“, dedicated to the victims of inhuman regimes, will take place on the initiative of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. The theme of…
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On 14 June, the national day of mourning a remembrance concert „Past. Present. Eternity“ will take place at the Memorial to Estonia’s Victims of Communism in Maarjamäe. The concert, dedicated to the victims of inhuman regimes, invites everyone to remember…
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On 14 May the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory opened in Patarei Prison, which is located in the centre of the Estonian capital Tallinn, an exhibition area “Communism is Prison” introducing the ideology and international crimes of communism and the…
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British soldiers in Estonia as part of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence are preparing on 23 April, Veterans Day, together with the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory the former Patarei Prison and its surrounding area for the opening of a unique…
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RESEARCH PAPERS COMPETITION A total of 18 papers from 13 countries were entered in the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory International Research Papers Competition. Eight of these were articles, six were master’s theses and four were doctoral dissertations. Prizes were…
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On 16 November, the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory organises a debate in the Narva Museum on the bolshevik coup of October 1917 and its impact on Estonia. The discussion will take place in Russian between the well known historian,…
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“Sovietisation and Violence: The Case of Estonia”: A new tool to understand how communists took over countries Proceedings of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory I (2018) „Sovietisation and Violence: The Case of Estonia“ gives English-reading public a new…
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On 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, a 30,000 square meter memorial was opened in Tallinn with more than 22,000 names of Estonia’s victims of communism. On the same day…
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The speech was written by Paul Goble for the internation conference Utopia unachieved despite millions victimised? Communist crimes and European memory in Tallinn, Estonia, on 23 August 2018. Some anniversaries are marked because they are so important historically that one cannot…
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On 23 August of the 100th anniversary year of the Republic of Estonia, on the European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, an international conference Utopia unachieved despite millions victimised? Communist crimes and European memory will be held…
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The article was published on 29.05.2018 in the The Baltic Times. Toomas Hiio, Research Director of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory The passing of 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx (1818–1883) was celebrated in the city of…
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International Summer School for Educators – overview The international summer school on teaching about the crimes of totalitarian regimes for history and civics educators takes place on 23 – 27 July 2018 in Estonia. The summer school aims to bring…
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PRESS RELEASE / STATEMENT May 5, 2018 Estonian Institute of Historical Memory: Participation of the European Commission’s leader in Marx’s birthday party is ignorance of victims of communism. The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, which researches the history of…
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PRESS RELEASE March 21, 2018 Renown opinion leaders in different fields appealed to the Estonian government to create opportunities for the establishment of an international museum and research centre of Communist crimes in the Patarei prison, Tallinn calling this initiative…
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PRESS RELEASE 15.02.2018 The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has launched the preparation of an international research centre and museum of crimes of communism in Tallinn, Estonia with the support of the government of Estonia and leading remembrance institutions…
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The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has launched an international design competition to find the best designs for an international museum of the crimes of communism, which is to be established in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The objective of the…
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Platform of European Memory and Conscience calls for a broad debate and a change of the permanent exhibition of the House of European History. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience presents a critical report on the House of European History, a…
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The 100th birth anniversary of Hirmus Ants, one of the most legendary forest brothers in Estonia, was celebrated on 21st October in Pärnu with the history conference “Ants Kaljurand 100”. The conference was held at Kuninga Street Basic School. Well…
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The opening of the exhibition “Communism in its Time” August 23, 2017 Maritime Museum gunpowder magazine (Uus st. 37) In the framework of the conference “The Heritage in 21st Century Europe of the Crimes Committed by Communist Regimes” the exhibition “Communism…
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The memorial conference for the victims of Communism and Nazism “The Heritage in 21st Century Europe of the Crimes Committed by Communist Regimes” August 23, 2017 Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel), Põhja blvd 27a On August 23, the Estonian Institute of Historical…
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Dear friends and colleagues, We have the great pleasure of announcing that the foundations Estonian Institute of Historical Memory and Unitas have merged into a new foundation that combines academic research concerning anti-human regimes (previously the responsibility of the Estonian…
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