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On the occasion of the Black Ribbon Day, or the Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, a Remembrance Ceremony will take place at the Maarjamäe Memorial for the Victims of Communism on 23 August…

On June 14, Day of Mourning and Commemoration, at 13.30, the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory will present the new edition of the Institute’s proceedings at the Maarjamäe Palace sculpture park. The new edition is entitled „Propaganda, Immigration, and Monuments….

The opening of the exhibition “Ukraine in 20th century crises” will take place on June 2 at 1 pm.  The exhibition will be officially opened by the Chair of the Board of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, Meelis Maripuu,…

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory invites history teachers, educators, youth workers and graduated students to participate in a Summer School about the history of crimes against humanity and human rights violations during and after the Second World War, which…

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory invites photography and film enthusiasts to capture places that serve as a reminder of the Soviet Union’s violent rule in Estonia, even if such sites have changed or deteriorated nowadays. The prize fund of…

On the initiative of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, Patarei Prison was illuminated with the colours of the Ukrainian flag on the commemoration day of the 1949 March Deportations on March 25. This serves as a reminder that Ukraine…

On March 25, 73 years will pass from the Soviet occupying regime’s mass crime against the Baltic peoples. The Soviet regime violently deported more than 20,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, and more than 90,000 people from the three Baltic…

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory invites everyone to commemorate the innocent victims of the 1944 March bombings and the war that has begun in Ukraine. The commemoration event takes place on 9 March at 19:15 in Harju Street and…

On 28 December, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to liquidate Memorial International, an organisation engaged in raising awareness about history, the commemoration of victims of communist terror, and protection of human rights. The basis of the liquidation…

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has signed a cooperation agreement with the State Archive of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The aim of cooperation between the parties is to improve researchers’ accessibility to archival materials that pertain to…

The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory has signed a cooperation agreement with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in the US. The Institute is in the process of establishing an International Museum for the Victims of Communism in Patarei Prison in Tallinn,…

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) in cooperation with the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory opened After the Great War. A New Europe 1918–1923 in Tallinn’s Freedom Square. The exhibition welcomes visitors from 17 October to 4 November 2021….

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…

World War II led to the extension of Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish policy to the conquered countries. Before the war, about 4,400 Jews lived in Estonia. About 400 of them became the victims of the deportation of 1941, approximately 3,000 fled…