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  • ACD: Denmark Armenians and Karen Jeppe Grads Honoring Karen Jeppe

    PRESS RELEASE
    ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN DENMARK
    Contact: Karekin Dickran
    Hans Broges Gade 45,
    8000 Aarhus C. DK
    Denmark
    Telephone: 45 + 86 13 90 54
    e-mail: [email protected]

    Nothing is forgotten!

    This weekend the Armenian community in Denmark are having the honor to
    receive 30 former students of Karen Jeppe Armenian College of Aleppo. They
    are arriving from various parts of the world to express their gratitude to
    the memory of Karen Jeppe. They will be traveling to Denmark for this
    occasion from the United States, France, Austria, Syria, Sweden and other
    parts of the world to express their thanks to the memory of Karen Jeppe for
    the dedication of her life to helping save thousands of Armenians during the
    first Genocide of the last century in Ourfa, Turkey, and then in Aleppo, and
    the Syrian countryside in the aftermath of that terribly inhuman event.

    The members of the group will be attending a church service on 10:30 AM,
    Sunday, September 11, 2005, at Gylling, in the very church where Karen Jeppe
    prayed as a young girl in making her decision to go to a far away land to
    alleviate their pain, and help save Armenian lives. This trip is to
    emphasize the group's commitment and strong efforts to help support the
    school, which was founded to perpetuate Karen Jeppe's name and memory.

    After the church service, the group will lay a wreath at Karen Jeppe's
    memorial stone in front of the church, sing the Hyre Mehr (Our Father) in
    Armenian. It will then proceed to the local Community Hall with the
    participation of local Armenians, where they will view important items from
    the museum, all lovingly collected and managed by a Danish friend of
    Armenians Mr. Ejnar Pedersen over the last 50 years. Mr. Ejnar will be
    presented a certificate of appreciation by the leader of the group Zareh
    Misserlian written and decorated by an artist from Yerevan, Armenia, in old
    Armenian script during the ensuing luncheon as well as a similar memorial,
    stating the groups visit to place at the local museum.

    By reviving and celebrating the important and exemplary life and work of
    Karen Jeppe at the turn of the century, the group will propose that a
    humanitarian award be established by the Danish Government in Karen Jeppe's
    name to recognize men and women who distinguish themselves by devoting their
    lives to protecting people in similar difficult situations. The Republic of
    Armenia has already the Fridjorf Nansen Prize, the famous Arctic explorer,
    athlete, author, statesman and humanist whom in 1925 the League of Nations
    appointed Nansen to organize the settling of the Armenian refugees as well
    as Karen Jeppe.

    The luncheon will be attended also by many local officials and dignitaries
    among them the mayor of the district, Henning Lehman the former Rector of
    Aarhus University who has arranged an exhibition about Armenian architecture
    and stones in 1974, Mr. Lehman is a good friend of Armenians and has
    published books about Armenia and Armenians in Danish. A press release will
    be sent to the Danish media emphasizing different points about the
    importance of reminding the current generations about similar situations,
    specially point of the good Samaritans among the Danish people as well as
    K.M.A (Woman's Missionary Workers) including Maria Jacobsen founder of
    Danish Birds Nest in Djoubeil Lebanon and by mentioning the benefit to the
    Armenian people from the warm friendship of the Danish people and the
    Armenians for 9 decades.
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