lecture by Dr. Andreja Valic Zver in the conference room of the National Library on Monday, September 16th

Everyone is welcome to an open lecture by Dr. Andreja Valic Zver in the National Library conference room on Monday, September 16th, 5–6 p.m. The lecture is entitled "Why do we need to remember the victims?"

Dr. Andreja Valic Zver is the Director of the Research Centre for History and National Reconciliation in Slovenia and her lecture will focus on why the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism in Europe, Nazism and Communism, must not be forgotten. Dr. Zver sits on the Board of the European Union Agency for Human Rights.

The lecture is supported by RNH, Varðberg, the Research Center for Innovation and Economic Growth, and the Institute of International Affairs of the University of Iceland. The event will also conclude with an exhibition at the National Library on World Communism and Iceland.

On this occasion, Professor Dr. Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson will also present to the National Library a number of documents that Professor Dr. Arnór Hannibalsson found in Moscow collections about Icelandic communists. Arnór had commissioned Hannes Hólmsteinn to process them, and he used them in the book Íslenskum kommúnistum 1918–1998 . The gathering at the National Library is specifically in memory of and in honor of Arnór, who died on December 28, 2012.

The meeting will be chaired by Illugi Gunnarsson, Minister of Education and Culture.

Further information: http://www.rnh.is/?lang=is