2022.08.23. - European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Committee of National Remembrance Share 2022. August 23. 23 August marks the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes proclaimed by the European Parliament in 2008. On this day in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Third Reich and the Soviet Union signed an agreement known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It gave rise to a tragedy for millions of people: concentration camps, gulags, the Holocaust, crematoria and labour camps, followed by the long years of the Cold War and, for many, further enslavement. The ‘Remember. August 23’ campaign aims at recalling their individual stories. On 23 August, on the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes is observed. It was on that day in 1939 that an agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union opened the gate to Second World War and all kinds of totalitarian violence: from forced migration through slave labour and war crimes to genocide, including an event unprecedented in world history – the Holocaust. 23 August brings back the memory of millions those who fell victim to totalitarian regimes, including the inmates of Nazi concentration camps, death camps, Soviet gulags and Stalinist prisons. short films dedicated to the individuals who experienced totalitarian violence. The full playlist is available here Péter Mansfeld was the youngest victim of repression after the 1956 revolution in Hungary. He was hanged at barely the age of 18. More information here... ENRS site ENRS Facebook Címkék ENRS communism Totalitárius diktatúrák áldozatainak európai emléknapja