The Deportation of the Crimean Tatars – 79 Years ago
18 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory For the anniversary on 18 May, Aleksandr Murtazaev, a Memorial volunteer, talks about the deportation of Crimean Tatars and his own…
‘Word of the New Martyrs.’ Letters from the White Sea-Baltic Canal
11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory In a video project about the persecution of the Church in the 20th century, students read letters from those who suffered…
This time, though, we are leaving something else—a piece from our (now seized) office with the Memorial logo.
Katyn: April 2023
11 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory Every April we try to go to the Katyn memorial complex in Smolensk Oblast to remember the Polish prisoners of war…
Vera Vasilieva: A letter from Yury Dmitriev
14 November 2022 by Vera Vasilieva Source: Facebook I received a letter from Yury Alekseevich Dmitriev dated 24 October which struck me deeply by the contrast between its contents and…
Aleksandr Cherkasov: No one could have imagined ‘37 coming in the guise of ‘41
20 October 2022 Aleksandr Cherkasov, human rights activist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] For a long time and at great length,…