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DIARY OF A NORWEGIAN MISSIONARY ANOTHER EVIDENCE OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Lilit Sedrakyan
"Radiolur"
16.03.2012 17:09
The diary of a Norvegian missionary, witness of the Armenian Genocide,
was found in the attic of his grandchild. It will soon be brought
to Armenia and will be kept in the Armenian Genocide-Museum, AGMI
Director Hayk Demoyan said during a discussion at a Glendale Public
Library. He is holding meetings with representtaives of the Armenian
organizations of the US West Coast to discuss the arrangements to
be organized ahead of 2015, which will mark the 100th anniversray of
the Armenian Genocide.
Demoyan lectured on the Genocide Museum's major recent publications
on the Armenian Genocide, including survivor memoirs, eyewitness
accounts, reprinted editions of rare primary sources and collections of
newly-discovered documents and works on the Cilicia massacres of 1909.
"The genocide perpetrated by Turks was not only a crime against
humanity, but also a cultural genocide, which, however, did not break
the spirit of a book-loving nation," Hayk Demoyan said.
An exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian
book-printing was opened at the Glendale Public Library. Exceptional
publications dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries brought from
Ararat-Eskijian Museum and private collections, as well as the recent
publications of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute were displayed.
AGMI is planning to publish a number of books and issue electronic
editions to continue the centuries-old traditions of publishing,
Demoyan told the audience. He told the attendees how the 400th
anniversary of Armenian book-printing was celebrated 100 years ago. It
also coincided with the 1 500th anniversary of creation of the Armenian
alphabet. In 1912 the two jubilees were on the front pages of the tens
of Armenian periodicals of Constantinople, Van, Kharbers and Sebastia.
In those years of cultural progress, Armenians were planning to
establish new theatres, participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin and
were thinking about the protection of women's rights. In three years
the genocide organized by the Turkish Government razed everything to
the ground.
Despite the fact that the Turkish State is applying all means to deny
the genocide, new evidences come to prove the crime. The diary of the
Norwegian witness of the Armenian Genocide will soon be translated
into Armenia and will enrich the collection of the AGMI.
From: Baghdasarian
Lilit Sedrakyan
"Radiolur"
16.03.2012 17:09
The diary of a Norvegian missionary, witness of the Armenian Genocide,
was found in the attic of his grandchild. It will soon be brought
to Armenia and will be kept in the Armenian Genocide-Museum, AGMI
Director Hayk Demoyan said during a discussion at a Glendale Public
Library. He is holding meetings with representtaives of the Armenian
organizations of the US West Coast to discuss the arrangements to
be organized ahead of 2015, which will mark the 100th anniversray of
the Armenian Genocide.
Demoyan lectured on the Genocide Museum's major recent publications
on the Armenian Genocide, including survivor memoirs, eyewitness
accounts, reprinted editions of rare primary sources and collections of
newly-discovered documents and works on the Cilicia massacres of 1909.
"The genocide perpetrated by Turks was not only a crime against
humanity, but also a cultural genocide, which, however, did not break
the spirit of a book-loving nation," Hayk Demoyan said.
An exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian
book-printing was opened at the Glendale Public Library. Exceptional
publications dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries brought from
Ararat-Eskijian Museum and private collections, as well as the recent
publications of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute were displayed.
AGMI is planning to publish a number of books and issue electronic
editions to continue the centuries-old traditions of publishing,
Demoyan told the audience. He told the attendees how the 400th
anniversary of Armenian book-printing was celebrated 100 years ago. It
also coincided with the 1 500th anniversary of creation of the Armenian
alphabet. In 1912 the two jubilees were on the front pages of the tens
of Armenian periodicals of Constantinople, Van, Kharbers and Sebastia.
In those years of cultural progress, Armenians were planning to
establish new theatres, participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin and
were thinking about the protection of women's rights. In three years
the genocide organized by the Turkish Government razed everything to
the ground.
Despite the fact that the Turkish State is applying all means to deny
the genocide, new evidences come to prove the crime. The diary of the
Norwegian witness of the Armenian Genocide will soon be translated
into Armenia and will enrich the collection of the AGMI.
From: Baghdasarian