Call for collection of objects for the future Museum of Communist Crimes in Romania (MCCR)
In line with its legal mandate and responding to a legitimate expectation of the Romanian society of the past three decades, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) launches a campaign in order to collect objects that were produced or used during the communist regime. The purpose of this campaign is putting together a collection of artifacts to create a basis for a future museum of communist crimes in Romania, dealing with the entire spectrum of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and, until the museum opening, to be used in the exhibitions [...]
The Communism in Romania Exhibition opened on May 18 at the Romanian Athenaeum
The Institute for the Investigation of Communism Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) and the Konrad Adenauer Romania Foundation organized on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, the varnishing of the Communism in Romania exhibition, which presents the history of the key moments of the period 1944-1989 in representative images. Initially, the exhibition offers its visitors an overview of the repression and the anti-communist resistance, so that in the fall of this year to extend to other sections related to the totalitarian period. Thus, the permanent exhibition of the future Museum of Communism will cover topics such as the [...]
The Photo Exhibition on the Destinies of Former Political Prisoners EXPUNERI, Available until April 22 at I.L.Caragiale National College in Bucharest
During April 5-22, 2016, IICCMER organizes, at I.L.Caragiale National College in Bucharest, the exhibition EXPUNERI [en. Displays], which presents the destinies of 30 political prisoners from communist Romania through family albums photographs, photos taken during detention or after their release. The project was initiated by our late beloved colleague Dana Cenuşă (National Administration of Penitentiaries). The speakers at the launching organized on April 5 were Irina Hasnaș, IICCMER expert and project coordinator, Nina Moica, the Association of Former Political Prisoners in Romania (AFDPR), Lucian Vasile, Head of Education and Memory Office, and Adrian Drăgușanu, history teacher at I.L.Caragiale National College. [...]
"Longing for the future", organized by high school students attending summer school at top of Fagaras-Saturday
Summer school students at top of Fagaras-Saturday, held between 5-12 July 2015 of the Institute for the investigation of Communist crimes and the memory of the Romanian exile (1989 ROMANIAN REVOLUTION), in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation, cultural foundation "Dumpweed" Făgăraş and Anti-communist Resistance Memorial "land of Făgăraş", created in the Fagaras Fortress Dungeon Tower from a Tree of life-spiritual, linking this with their youth râvnitorilor. The exhibition includes over 70 graphic illustrating the flags crackdown on population through portraits of members of the anti-communist resistance movement and political prisoners, as well as through the drawings of buildings, prisons or [...]
Exhibition “Common Denominator – Death” in Turda
The exhibition “Common denominator – Death” opened on Thursday, 21st of February, 2013, at the Museum of History in Turda, Cluj County. The exhibition could be visited by the public from February 21 to March 17 on a free admittance basis. Hosted by the Museum of History in Turda, the exhibition was organized by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER) and the National History Museum of Transylvania in Cluj, in collaboration with the Museum of History in Aiud.
The Opening of the Exhibition Râmnicu Sărat – The Prison of Silence (1945-1963)
For those who were not born or raised under dictatorship, the actual meeting with the remains of the communist concentration camps represents an impressive experience. The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, in partnership with the National Council for the Studying of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS), the “Corneliu Coposu” Foundation, the National Archives of Romania and the Architects’ Chamber of Romania, organised the opening of the exhibition Râmnicu Sărat – The Prison of Silence (1945-1963). The exhibition was open to visitors in the interval 7-17 June 2011, at the Museum of the [...]