Teaching the history of totalitarian regimes is essential for fostering critical thinking and historical awareness in today’s students.
By focusing on individual stories, teachers can make these complex and often abstract events more relatable and human. For educators across Europe, this approach not only deepens students’ understanding of the past but also helps them recognize the value of democracy, human rights, and civic responsibility. Through personal narratives, history becomes more than facts—it transforms into lessons that resonate with the challenges of our time.
The aim of the “Remember. August 23” is to cultivate memory of the victims of Nazism, Stalinism and all other totalitarian ideologies, whom we strive to portray not as an anonymous collective, but individuals with their own distinctive stories and fates. By doing so, we also want to increase public awareness of the threats posed by extremist ideologies.
