Photo evidence of Armenian Genocide to be displayed in Moscow

26.05.2005 16:41

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – The exhibition “Armin Wegner and the Armenian
Genocide” will open in Moscow on May 31, the newspaper Yerkramas,
published by Armenians of southern Russia, reported.

Organized by the Moscow chapter of the Russian-Armenian Friendship
Organization and Russian Cultural Fund’s project directorate, the
exhibition is based on the book by Italian historian Giovanni Guaita,
Yuri Navoyan, chairman of the Russian-Armenian Friendship Organization
said.

Unique photos taken at the death camps by German officer Armin Wegner,
an eyewitness of the Armenian Genocide, in defiance of the Turkish and
German authorities’ strict ban to shoot the events, will be on
display.

Armenian and Russian public figures will attend the opening ceremony.