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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHINES LIGHT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum will sponsor a major exhibition on the
Armenian Genocide in 2015 to mark its 100th anniversary, museum next
month will host a two-day conference, "The Ottoman Turkish Genocides
of Anatolian Christians," Executive Director of the Museum Rick
Hirschhaut said, Skokie Review reports.
"Our young people â?" our future â?" must be a bridge to the future,
and ensure that we realize the lessons that were set forth by us,
by the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and all such terrible
atrocities," Rick Hirschhaut said.
Esteemed Armenian Genocide scholar Dr. Peter Balakian spoke Sunday to
more than 250 people, mostly of Armenian descent, about the Armenian
Genocide of 1913-1925 and how Lemkin came to address it.
Sunday's event was a meshing of anniversaries of sorts â?" the fourth
anniversary of the museum's opening in Skokie and the 98th anniversary
of the start of the Armenian Genocide.
"We must speak for those whose voices were silenced and for those who
survived so we may remember and pledge never to forget," Hirschhaut
said. "Today, at this gathering, we are reminded of a history that
must be recognized, and remembered, and calls to the importance of
lighting the torch of truth for the world community."
Shining a light on the Armenian Genocide keeps alive the mission of
the museum, which has always been dedicated to educating not just about
the genocide of World War II but about genocides all over the world.
But there is another reason the subject is such an ideal fit for the
Illinois Holocaust Museum. When Hitler invaded Poland, launching
World War II in 1939, he defended his actions and, in retrospect,
the atrocities he would commit with these chilling words.
"I have placed my death-head formations in readiness â?" for the
present only in the East â?" with orders to them to send to death
mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of
Polish derivation and language," he said. "Only thus shall we gain
the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the
annihilation of the Armenians?"
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/24/holocaust-museum-shines-light-on-armenian-genocide/
The Illinois Holocaust Museum will sponsor a major exhibition on the
Armenian Genocide in 2015 to mark its 100th anniversary, museum next
month will host a two-day conference, "The Ottoman Turkish Genocides
of Anatolian Christians," Executive Director of the Museum Rick
Hirschhaut said, Skokie Review reports.
"Our young people â?" our future â?" must be a bridge to the future,
and ensure that we realize the lessons that were set forth by us,
by the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and all such terrible
atrocities," Rick Hirschhaut said.
Esteemed Armenian Genocide scholar Dr. Peter Balakian spoke Sunday to
more than 250 people, mostly of Armenian descent, about the Armenian
Genocide of 1913-1925 and how Lemkin came to address it.
Sunday's event was a meshing of anniversaries of sorts â?" the fourth
anniversary of the museum's opening in Skokie and the 98th anniversary
of the start of the Armenian Genocide.
"We must speak for those whose voices were silenced and for those who
survived so we may remember and pledge never to forget," Hirschhaut
said. "Today, at this gathering, we are reminded of a history that
must be recognized, and remembered, and calls to the importance of
lighting the torch of truth for the world community."
Shining a light on the Armenian Genocide keeps alive the mission of
the museum, which has always been dedicated to educating not just about
the genocide of World War II but about genocides all over the world.
But there is another reason the subject is such an ideal fit for the
Illinois Holocaust Museum. When Hitler invaded Poland, launching
World War II in 1939, he defended his actions and, in retrospect,
the atrocities he would commit with these chilling words.
"I have placed my death-head formations in readiness â?" for the
present only in the East â?" with orders to them to send to death
mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of
Polish derivation and language," he said. "Only thus shall we gain
the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the
annihilation of the Armenians?"