Summer School 2024: The Fateful Year of 1944

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory is welcoming participants to a Summer School that takes place on 4 to...

1944 March bombing commemoration events

On Saturday, 9 March, 80 years will pass from the bombing of Tallinn and other Estonian towns by the...

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Pictured: excerpts from 1939 and 1942 from the diary of Ado Kisand (1929-2013), who was deported in 1941.

Results of the 2023 EIHM Research Papers Competition

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory thanks everyone that took part in the 2023 EIHM Research Papers Competition. In...

Documentary „Gori the Caricaturist“

Documentary „Gori the Caricaturist“ (2023) on November 7 at 6 pm at the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory (Tõnismägi...
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EIHM Summer School in Tallinn 2023

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory (EIHM) has been organising its Summer Schools since 2018. In 2023, we will organise a Summer School for history teachers and graduate students, and another Summer School for secondary school and Bachelor’s students. During…

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Exhibition ‘COMMUNISM = RASHISM’

The State Archives of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory kindly invite you to join the exhibition opening of ‘COMMUNISM = RASHISM’ on Friday, December 2nd at 1 p.m. in front of Tallinn Writers House…

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The Institute thanks all participants for their valuable contribution and offers its warmest congratulations to the winning authors!

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2021 Summer School testimonials

Despite the global pandemic, our Summer Schools were attended by 80 students, teachers and young historians from more than 13 countries. Two weeks from 25 to 30 July and 1 to 6 August were filled with discussions about 20th century European totalitarianism…

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Notorious Patarei Prison reopens to visitors

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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Estonian Institute of Historical Memory’s communism-themed research competition winner’s manuscript published by Tallinn University Press

Tallinn University Press in cooperation with the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory published Stefan Gužvica’s Master’s thesis Learning Leninism: Factional Struggles in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia during the Great Purge (1936–1940) that won the Institute’s communism-themed research competition. The…

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The grand monument of Patarei

According to Sergei Metlev, the Public and Partner Relations Manager of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, Estonia’s next major project, the Patarei Museum for the Victims of Communism embodies the country’s international mission of standing up for liberty. The…

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11. Geschichtsmesse 2018

In Germany, scepticism and even open hostility towards democracy and pluralism are on the rise again. After decades of research, documentation, and education about Nazi and communist crimes, many still seem to consider authoritarianism as a viable “alternative” to democracy….

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Exhibition “Communism in its Time”

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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Summer School 2024: The Fateful Year of 1944

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory is welcoming participants to a Summer School that takes place on 4 to 9 August 2024. This year, we are especially encouraging young...

Happy Christmas!

Pictured: excerpts from 1939 and 1942 from the diary of Ado Kisand (1929-2013), who was deported in 1941.