General Assembly of the Memorial International Association

The General Assembly of the International Memorial Association, established in 2023 by 15 Memorial organizations from different countries, was held this June.

New members joined the Association: Memorial Switzerland and the virtual museum Perm 36.

A new international board was also elected: Anna Gavina, Giulia De Florio, Sergey Krivenko, Štěpán Černoušek, Irina Scherbakova and Nicolas Werth, who became chairperson.

Nicolas Werth of Memorial France is a historian, a specialist on Soviet history, and the author of “Famine in the USSR. The 1930s,” ”Terror and Disorder. Stalinism as a System,” ”History of the Soviet State. 1900-1991”, “Putin is the Chief Historian” and many others.