Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance
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The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (
Sighet Museum (often confused with the Memorial), located in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County, and the International Centre for Studies into Communism, located in Bucharest
.
International Centre for Studies into Communism
The Centre was founded in 1993 by
museography and education.[1]
Sighet Memorial Museum
The museum was created by the Centre for Studies into Communism out of the remnants of the former Sighet Prison in 1993.[2]
The restoration of the prison building was completed in 2000. Each prison cell became a museum room, which together presented the chronology of the
totalitarian system in Communist Romania.[2]
In 1998, the Council of Europe identified the Sighet Memorial as one of the main sites that preserve the continent's memory, alongside the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Mémorial de Caen.[3]
References
- ^ The Sighet Memorial to the Victims of Communism
- ^ a b "Short History of the Memorial Museum"
- ^ "Astăzi despre Memorialul Sighet - nominalizat de CE printre primele trei locuri de cultivare a memoriei europene, alături de Memorialul de la Auschwitz și Memorialul Păcii din Normandia". Ziarul de Vrancea (in Romanian). June 9, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
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