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FEDERATION OF ARMENIAN ORGANISATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS (FAON)
24 April Committee
Weesperstraat 91
NL – 2574 VS The Hague
Contact: M. Hakhverdian
Tel. 070 4490209
E-mail: april24committee@wanadoo.nl
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Press Release

90th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Exhibition on Armenian Genocide opened in Leiden, the Netherlands

An exhibition on the Armenian Genocide and entitled “Deportation,
Persecution, Annihilation” and “Reaction of Dutch media, public and politics
on Armenian Genocide” was opened in Pieterskerk Church in Leiden, The
Netherlands on the 17 April 2005. Prof. The armenologist professor Dr. Jos
Weitenberg inaugurated the exhibition with a speech on the importance of
this exhibition. The exhibition will last till 21 April 2005.

Apart from the photo material coming from the Information and Documentation
Centre Armenia (IDZA) of Berlin prepared by Dr. Tessa Hoffman and Gerayer
Koutcharian, a section of recently found Dutch documents from period
1910-1918 is added to it. The Dutch section of the exhibition is prepared by
a working group of 24 April Committee of the Federation of Armenian
Organisations of the Netherlands (FAON).

The exhibition with extended Dutch explanation is organised by 24 April
Committee of FAON with the support of Armenian Embassy in Brussels and in
co-operation with Dr. Tessa Hoffman.

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