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Victims of the Holocaust remembered in Armenia
17:21, 27 Jan 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of
the Victims of the Holocaust UN Armenia Office, together with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Jewish Community participated in a
solemn ceremonyto pay tribute to the memory of the victims. The UN
Resident Coordinator Bradley Busetto and the Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Sergey Manassarianplaced a wreath at the Holocaust
Memorial in Aragast Park followed by prayers and a candlelight vigil.
The event continued in the National Library of Armenia with an
exhibition of posters featuring documentary fragments of the history
of the Holocaust and the WWII, award winning posters on the topic, as
well as publications from the UN Reference Library and the National
Library stocks. In the events hall of the National Library where media
and a youth audience from schools and universities of Yerevan was
gathered, UN, MFA and Jewish community representatives spoke about the
mass killings of primarily Jews, political prisoners, Soviet prisoners
of war, Sintiand Roma, homosexuals, disabled persons and Jehovah's
witnesses.
In his speech, UN Resident Coordinator Bradley Busetto stated: "While
honoring the memory of the victims, this international day of
commemoration is our opportunity to reaffirm the commitment of the
international community to taking action against anti-semitism,
racism, and intolerance, and to preventing similar violence in the
future."
Seventy years have passed since the liberation of the Auschwitz
Birkenau, the German NaziConcentration and Extermination Camp, a place
where the Nazis introduced the monstrous concept of "industrialized
murder".While speaking about these tragic events and crimes against
humanitythe Rabbi Gershon Meir Burshtein, and the Chairwoman of the
Jewish Community RimmaVarzhapetyan-Feller highlighted the lessons of
tolerance that especially the youth should learn. Speaking and telling
about these inhuman acts of genocide and annihilation can prevent the
modern day crimes and attempts of genocide, hatred, discrimination and
xenophobia.
As the theme of this year's observance was "Liberty, Life and the
Legacy of the Holocaust Survivors"UN HQ films onliberation of
Auschwitz Birkenauthrough testimonies of survivors and veterans, as
well as on the 10th anniversary of the Holocaust and UN Outreach
Programme were also screened. Information materials on Holocaust were
available for media and youth.The whole event was concluded by Willy
Weiner's somber music (a prominent Jewish composer in Armenia,
chairman of the Jewish Cultural Center Menora).
UN Department of Public Information Yerevan Office jointly with the UN
Depository Library located in the National Library of Armenia were the
main organizers of the day. To mark this observance through education
outreach activity had a goal to instill the memory of the tragedy in
future generationspreventing genocides from occurring again.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/27/victims-of-the-holocaust-remembered-in-armenia/
17:21, 27 Jan 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of
the Victims of the Holocaust UN Armenia Office, together with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Jewish Community participated in a
solemn ceremonyto pay tribute to the memory of the victims. The UN
Resident Coordinator Bradley Busetto and the Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Sergey Manassarianplaced a wreath at the Holocaust
Memorial in Aragast Park followed by prayers and a candlelight vigil.
The event continued in the National Library of Armenia with an
exhibition of posters featuring documentary fragments of the history
of the Holocaust and the WWII, award winning posters on the topic, as
well as publications from the UN Reference Library and the National
Library stocks. In the events hall of the National Library where media
and a youth audience from schools and universities of Yerevan was
gathered, UN, MFA and Jewish community representatives spoke about the
mass killings of primarily Jews, political prisoners, Soviet prisoners
of war, Sintiand Roma, homosexuals, disabled persons and Jehovah's
witnesses.
In his speech, UN Resident Coordinator Bradley Busetto stated: "While
honoring the memory of the victims, this international day of
commemoration is our opportunity to reaffirm the commitment of the
international community to taking action against anti-semitism,
racism, and intolerance, and to preventing similar violence in the
future."
Seventy years have passed since the liberation of the Auschwitz
Birkenau, the German NaziConcentration and Extermination Camp, a place
where the Nazis introduced the monstrous concept of "industrialized
murder".While speaking about these tragic events and crimes against
humanitythe Rabbi Gershon Meir Burshtein, and the Chairwoman of the
Jewish Community RimmaVarzhapetyan-Feller highlighted the lessons of
tolerance that especially the youth should learn. Speaking and telling
about these inhuman acts of genocide and annihilation can prevent the
modern day crimes and attempts of genocide, hatred, discrimination and
xenophobia.
As the theme of this year's observance was "Liberty, Life and the
Legacy of the Holocaust Survivors"UN HQ films onliberation of
Auschwitz Birkenauthrough testimonies of survivors and veterans, as
well as on the 10th anniversary of the Holocaust and UN Outreach
Programme were also screened. Information materials on Holocaust were
available for media and youth.The whole event was concluded by Willy
Weiner's somber music (a prominent Jewish composer in Armenia,
chairman of the Jewish Cultural Center Menora).
UN Department of Public Information Yerevan Office jointly with the UN
Depository Library located in the National Library of Armenia were the
main organizers of the day. To mark this observance through education
outreach activity had a goal to instill the memory of the tragedy in
future generationspreventing genocides from occurring again.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/27/victims-of-the-holocaust-remembered-in-armenia/