Invitation to the Conference in Prague

Dear and respected members of the International Committee!

You are cordially invited to the Conference held by the International Committee of Deportees and Refugees, Victims of Fascism and Nazism in 1920–1945 in Prague, Czech Republic,

from May 15 to May 17, 2015.


Conference Programme
 


Friday, May 15, 2015
 

Arrival of participants until 18.00, accommodation at the DAP Hotel

19.00 dinner at the DAP Hotel (House of army, Vítězné náměstí 4, Dejvická metro station)

 

Saturday, May 16, 2015 

7.30–8.30

 

8.30

 

 

 

 

 

9.00

 

 

 

10.00–10.30

 

10.30

 

 

11.00–12.30

 

12.30–13.30

 

13.30–14.00

 

 

14.30

 

19.00

breakfast at the DAP Hotel

 

opening and welcome speech by the President of the Circle of Citizens of the Czech Republic Displaced from Border Regions in 1938 Mr. Jiři Prokop, Eng. 

Organisational instructions regarding the programme Emil Šneberg, member of the International Committee

 

report by Mrs. Ivica Žnidaršič, Prof., on the activities of the International Committee. European Museum of Victims of Fascism and Nazism at the Rajhenburg Castle

 

coffee break

 

draft proposal for the European Shoah Legacy Institute (covering all victims of Nazism) prepared by Jiří Prokop

 

participant talks and discussions

 

lunch

 

adoption of conclusions and arrangement of International Committee meetings in the following years

 

tour of the Prague Castle

 

formal dinner

 

Sunday, May 17  

7.30–8.30

 

8.30

 

10.00–15.00

 

15.30 

breakfast at the DAP Hotel

 

departure for Theresienstadt

 

laying of wreaths (ceremony)

 

departure for Prague and departure of participants

 

 

We kindly ask you to inform us about your time and method of arrival in Prague (airport, railway station). 

Please send your speeches in your own language, in English and in Russian by April 25, 2015 (e-mail: jiri.prokop40@seznam.cz), and don't forget to stamp it with your organisation's seal. 

Kind regards,

 

 

Ivica Žnidaršič, Prof., President of the International Committee

Jiří Prokop, Eng., President of the Circle of Citizens of the Czech Republic Displaced from Border Regions in 1938