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PLANS IN WORKS FOR OFFICIAL MEMORIAL
AMANDA BASKIND
NorthJersey.com
http://www.northjersey.com/news/100003424_Plans_in_works_for_official_memorial.html
Aug 5 2010
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS - Mayor Joseph C. Parisi Jr., calls Englewood Cliffs
the American Dream because of the town's diverse ethnic makeup.
At the Aug. 11 borough council meeting, officials will discuss a
dedication for memorials in the memory of the 1.5 million victims of
the Armenian Genocide and the more than 6 million victims of Jewish
ancestry who perished in the Holocaust.
Parisi said these displays are going to memorialize "the wrongs that
the ancestors of Englewood Cliff residents had to live through." In
addition to the borough's large Jewish population, the borough has
"one of the largest Armenian concentrations in the United States as
per the population," said Councilman Hon. Martin V. Asatrian.
Every year, the borough does a memorial to honor the victims of the
Armenian Genocide by raising a flag outside borough hall. This year,
Asatrian suggested doing something different.
"I merely want the precious memories of those that perished at the
hands of murderous leaders to be memoried and never forgotten, as
I am deeply concerned about a repeat of these atrocities on other
minority groups in other regions of the world," said Asatrian. "A
genocide on any minority is a genocide on all of humankind and crimes
against humanity are intolerable," he said.
This is also a personal issue for Asatrian, whose ancestors perished in
the Armenian Genocide during 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. He has worked
with the Armenian Assembly in Washington as well as the American
National Institute that advocated the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide in the United States.
"I just want to memorialize the crimes against humanity and to
remind our residents that history can repeat itself, even in the
United States, and to respect and have compassion for all people and
celebrate our differences and rejoice in our collective diversity,"
Asatrian said.
E-mail: baskind@northjersey. com or call 201-894-6700 ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
- Mayor Joseph C. Parisi Jr., calls Englewood Cliffs the American
Dream because of the town's diverse ethnic makeup.
At the Aug. 11 borough council meeting, officials will discuss a
dedication for memorials in the memory of the 1.5 million victims of
the Armenian Genocide and the more than 6 million victims of Jewish
ancestry who perished in the Holocaust.
Parisi said these displays are going to memorialize "the wrongs that
the ancestors of Englewood Cliff residents had to live through." In
addition to the borough's large Jewish population, the borough has
"one of the largest Armenian concentrations in the United States as
per the population," said Councilman Hon. Martin V. Asatrian.
Every year, the borough does a memorial to honor the victims of the
Armenian Genocide by raising a flag outside borough hall. This year,
Asatrian suggested doing something different.
"I merely want the precious memories of those that perished at the
hands of murderous leaders to be memoried and never forgotten, as
I am deeply concerned about a repeat of these atrocities on other
minority groups in other regions of the world," said Asatrian. "A
genocide on any minority is a genocide on all of humankind and crimes
against humanity are intolerable," he said.
This is also a personal issue for Asatrian, whose ancestors perished in
the Armenian Genocide during 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. He has worked
with the Armenian Assembly in Washington as well as the American
National Institute that advocated the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide in the United States.
"I just want to memorialize the crimes against humanity and to
remind our residents that history can repeat itself, even in the
United States, and to respect and have compassion for all people and
celebrate our differences and rejoice in our collective diversity,"
Asatrian said.
From: A. Papazian
AMANDA BASKIND
NorthJersey.com
http://www.northjersey.com/news/100003424_Plans_in_works_for_official_memorial.html
Aug 5 2010
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS - Mayor Joseph C. Parisi Jr., calls Englewood Cliffs
the American Dream because of the town's diverse ethnic makeup.
At the Aug. 11 borough council meeting, officials will discuss a
dedication for memorials in the memory of the 1.5 million victims of
the Armenian Genocide and the more than 6 million victims of Jewish
ancestry who perished in the Holocaust.
Parisi said these displays are going to memorialize "the wrongs that
the ancestors of Englewood Cliff residents had to live through." In
addition to the borough's large Jewish population, the borough has
"one of the largest Armenian concentrations in the United States as
per the population," said Councilman Hon. Martin V. Asatrian.
Every year, the borough does a memorial to honor the victims of the
Armenian Genocide by raising a flag outside borough hall. This year,
Asatrian suggested doing something different.
"I merely want the precious memories of those that perished at the
hands of murderous leaders to be memoried and never forgotten, as
I am deeply concerned about a repeat of these atrocities on other
minority groups in other regions of the world," said Asatrian. "A
genocide on any minority is a genocide on all of humankind and crimes
against humanity are intolerable," he said.
This is also a personal issue for Asatrian, whose ancestors perished in
the Armenian Genocide during 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. He has worked
with the Armenian Assembly in Washington as well as the American
National Institute that advocated the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide in the United States.
"I just want to memorialize the crimes against humanity and to
remind our residents that history can repeat itself, even in the
United States, and to respect and have compassion for all people and
celebrate our differences and rejoice in our collective diversity,"
Asatrian said.
E-mail: baskind@northjersey. com or call 201-894-6700 ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
- Mayor Joseph C. Parisi Jr., calls Englewood Cliffs the American
Dream because of the town's diverse ethnic makeup.
At the Aug. 11 borough council meeting, officials will discuss a
dedication for memorials in the memory of the 1.5 million victims of
the Armenian Genocide and the more than 6 million victims of Jewish
ancestry who perished in the Holocaust.
Parisi said these displays are going to memorialize "the wrongs that
the ancestors of Englewood Cliff residents had to live through." In
addition to the borough's large Jewish population, the borough has
"one of the largest Armenian concentrations in the United States as
per the population," said Councilman Hon. Martin V. Asatrian.
Every year, the borough does a memorial to honor the victims of the
Armenian Genocide by raising a flag outside borough hall. This year,
Asatrian suggested doing something different.
"I merely want the precious memories of those that perished at the
hands of murderous leaders to be memoried and never forgotten, as
I am deeply concerned about a repeat of these atrocities on other
minority groups in other regions of the world," said Asatrian. "A
genocide on any minority is a genocide on all of humankind and crimes
against humanity are intolerable," he said.
This is also a personal issue for Asatrian, whose ancestors perished in
the Armenian Genocide during 1915 in the Ottoman Empire. He has worked
with the Armenian Assembly in Washington as well as the American
National Institute that advocated the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide in the United States.
"I just want to memorialize the crimes against humanity and to
remind our residents that history can repeat itself, even in the
United States, and to respect and have compassion for all people and
celebrate our differences and rejoice in our collective diversity,"
Asatrian said.
From: A. Papazian