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Memorial welcomes Cuban blogger
08.05.2013 |
| Memorial welcomes Cuban blogger |
 Today, Cuban dissenter Yoani Sánchez visited during her first travel abroad in ten years the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Contemporary witness and compatriot Jorge Luís García Vázquez guided her through the former central Stasi remand prison. |
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American author visits Hohenschönhausen Memorial
08.05.2013 |
| American author visits Memorial |
 Last Saturday (4th May), American author Jonathan Franzen participated in a guided tour with contemporary witness Vera Lengsfeld through the former central remand prison of the GDR Ministry of State Security.
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Belgian pupils donate sculpture
24.04.2013 |
| Belgian pupils donate sculpture |
 Yesterday, 23rd April, pupils from Antwerp Institute of Applied Arts visited the Memorial at the former Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen in order to donate a sculpture representing a former prisoner's experiences in jail. |
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We are moving
19.02.2013 |
 From 18th February to 1st March the Memorial's offices are moving. Please note that telephone and internet connection might be interrupted in the meantime.
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Platform of European Memory and Conscience called on the European community to focus on the victims of Communist repr...
09.11.2012 |
| Platform of European Memory and Conscience called on the ... |
 During the annual meeting at the former Stasi prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, the members of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience appealed for a complete opening of archives of the former Communist regimes. |
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An European exchange of experiences
08.11.2012 |
| An European exchange of experiences |
 On the occasion of the annual meeting of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience on 8-9 November 2012 in Berlin representatives of Museums, institutes and memorials in Middle- and Eastern Europe present for the first time to a professional audience in Germany their activities of coming to terms with the communist past.
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German chancellor recommends visiting Hohenschönhausen Memorial
01.11.2012 |
| German chancellor recommends visiting Hohenschönhausen M... |
 In her podcast of 20th October Angela Merkel recommended visiting the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Each generation needs to come to terms with the past again in order to understand historical contexts.
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Memorial is mourning the passing of Professor Ahmed Jdey
26.07.2012 |
| Memorial is mourning the passing of Professor Ahmed Jdey |
 Professor Ahmed Jdey is the most known historian of Tunisian Contemporary History and was an important partner of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial in reference to coming to terms with the Tunisian dictatorship. Last Friday (20th July) Professor Jdey died.
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Event: exhibition opening
14.06.2012 |
| Event: exhibition opening |
 With the exhibition „Black Pentecost – deportations in the Romanian Baragan Plain“ the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial and the Romanian cultural institute commemorate a nearly unknown chapter of European post-war history. Along with the exhibition opening next Tuesday, 19th June 2012, will be shown a film and presented a new book. |
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