PRESS RELEASE
ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN DENMARK
Contact: Karekin Dickran
Hans Broges Gade 45,
8000 Aarhus C. DK
Denmark
Telephone: 45 + 86 13 90 54
e-mail: kd@unica.dk

Nothing is forgotten!

This weekend the Armenian community in Denmark are having the honor to
receive 30 former students of Karen Jeppe Armenian College of Aleppo. They
are arriving from various parts of the world to express their gratitude to
the memory of Karen Jeppe. They will be traveling to Denmark for this
occasion from the United States, France, Austria, Syria, Sweden and other
parts of the world to express their thanks to the memory of Karen Jeppe for
the dedication of her life to helping save thousands of Armenians during the
first Genocide of the last century in Ourfa, Turkey, and then in Aleppo, and
the Syrian countryside in the aftermath of that terribly inhuman event.

The members of the group will be attending a church service on 10:30 AM,
Sunday, September 11, 2005, at Gylling, in the very church where Karen Jeppe
prayed as a young girl in making her decision to go to a far away land to
alleviate their pain, and help save Armenian lives. This trip is to
emphasize the group’s commitment and strong efforts to help support the
school, which was founded to perpetuate Karen Jeppe’s name and memory.

After the church service, the group will lay a wreath at Karen Jeppe’s
memorial stone in front of the church, sing the Hyre Mehr (Our Father) in
Armenian. It will then proceed to the local Community Hall with the
participation of local Armenians, where they will view important items from
the museum, all lovingly collected and managed by a Danish friend of
Armenians Mr. Ejnar Pedersen over the last 50 years. Mr. Ejnar will be
presented a certificate of appreciation by the leader of the group Zareh
Misserlian written and decorated by an artist from Yerevan, Armenia, in old
Armenian script during the ensuing luncheon as well as a similar memorial,
stating the groups visit to place at the local museum.

By reviving and celebrating the important and exemplary life and work of
Karen Jeppe at the turn of the century, the group will propose that a
humanitarian award be established by the Danish Government in Karen Jeppe’s
name to recognize men and women who distinguish themselves by devoting their
lives to protecting people in similar difficult situations. The Republic of
Armenia has already the Fridjorf Nansen Prize, the famous Arctic explorer,
athlete, author, statesman and humanist whom in 1925 the League of Nations
appointed Nansen to organize the settling of the Armenian refugees as well
as Karen Jeppe.

The luncheon will be attended also by many local officials and dignitaries
among them the mayor of the district, Henning Lehman the former Rector of
Aarhus University who has arranged an exhibition about Armenian architecture
and stones in 1974, Mr. Lehman is a good friend of Armenians and has
published books about Armenia and Armenians in Danish. A press release will
be sent to the Danish media emphasizing different points about the
importance of reminding the current generations about similar situations,
specially point of the good Samaritans among the Danish people as well as
K.M.A (Woman’s Missionary Workers) including Maria Jacobsen founder of
Danish Birds Nest in Djoubeil Lebanon and by mentioning the benefit to the
Armenian people from the warm friendship of the Danish people and the
Armenians for 9 decades.