"Remember. August 23" - international public awareness and educational campaign about the victims of totalitarian regimes

The hero of this year's edition is Borys Romanchenko (1926-2022), a Ukrainian activist, Holocaust survivor, prisoner of concentration camps, and the victim of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. In previous years, the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity prepared videos about the fate of Kazimierz Moczarski, Mala Zimetbaum and Edek Galiński, Władysław Bartoszewski, Doina Cornea, Iava Lase, Jaan Kross, Milada Horákova, Juliana Zarchi, and Péter Mansfeld. All the biographies share a proactive stance in respect of defending the truth and human dignity.

The videos are accompanied by a media and outdoor campaign in the centres of European capitals, including Warsaw, Vilnius, and Berlin. The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity also prepared a special 23 August commemoration guide and pins with a black band that you can wear as a gesture of remembrance about millions of victims of totalitarian regimes. The pins are available at the ESPS office at 37 Zielna St. in Warsaw and in selected establishments that have joined the campaign.

The videos about the heroes, the commemoration guide, the list of locations where pins are distributed, and historical and educational articles are available at https://enrs.eu/august23 

As part of the Campaign, ESPS will present and distribute the pins during the 19th National Selection Session of the European Youth Parliament (EYP) in Łódź.

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is an international undertaking whose aim is to shape the discourse on the European history of the 20th and 21st centuries and on the methods of remembrance, with particular emphasis on the period of dictatorships, wars, and social resistance to subjugation.

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