Remember.  August 23: the story of Jaan Kross

Remember. August 23: the story of Jaan Kross

Remember.  August 23: the story of Jaan Kross

Today we commemorate the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes. Each 23 August we recall those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies. This time, as part of our campaign ‘Remember. 23 August’, we want to present you a film dedicated to the Estonian writer, Jaan Kross.

23 August marks the anniversary of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, an agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which has opened the gate to the Second World War and all kinds of totalitarian violence. Our campaign 'Remember.August 23' aims to pay tribute to all those who suffered in the name of criminal ideologies.

Learn more about ‘Remember. August 23’

This year we invite you to watch a short film dedicated to Jaan Kross, a several-time Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, who suffered persecution and imprisonment by both Nazi German and Soviet totalitarian regimes. Now he is considered a symbol of resistance against Nazism and Stalinism and the ‘conscience of the Estonian people’.

Remember him.

Watch the film about Jaan Kross

Read Jaan Kross biography

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