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EVENT COMMEMORATING SWISS HUMANIST JACOB KUNZLER TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.04.2008 15:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event dedicated to Swiss humanist Jacob Kunzler,
representative of German Eastern Mission and doctor at local Swiss
Mission Hospital in Western Armenia, will he held in Armenian Genocide
Museum Institute on April 22.
"A handful of soil from Kunzler's grave will be buried under the Wall
of Memory in Tsitsernakaberd.
Catholicos of Al Armenians Garegin II and Kunzler's heirs will attend
the event," Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Director Hayk Demoyan
told a news conference today.
On January 1, 1922, Dr Kunzler with assistance of American Near
East Relief Organization conveyed 8000 Armenian orphans from Turkey
to Syria and Lebanon. The same year he founded an asylum for 1400
Armenian girls in Syria and then a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
Jacob Kunzler died in 1949 and was buried at the Protestant Cemetery
in Beirut.
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.04.2008 15:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event dedicated to Swiss humanist Jacob Kunzler,
representative of German Eastern Mission and doctor at local Swiss
Mission Hospital in Western Armenia, will he held in Armenian Genocide
Museum Institute on April 22.
"A handful of soil from Kunzler's grave will be buried under the Wall
of Memory in Tsitsernakaberd.
Catholicos of Al Armenians Garegin II and Kunzler's heirs will attend
the event," Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Director Hayk Demoyan
told a news conference today.
On January 1, 1922, Dr Kunzler with assistance of American Near
East Relief Organization conveyed 8000 Armenian orphans from Turkey
to Syria and Lebanon. The same year he founded an asylum for 1400
Armenian girls in Syria and then a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
Jacob Kunzler died in 1949 and was buried at the Protestant Cemetery
in Beirut.