PanARMENIAN.Net
Monument to Holocaust and Genocide Victims Opened in Yerevan
28.10.2006 16:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ October 27 a monument to Holocaust and Genocide
victims opened in Yerevan. Chair of the Jewish community of Armenia
and initiator of creation of the monument Rimma Varzhapetyan-Feller
made the opening address. Members of Armenian Government,
representatives of foreign embassies, media, Union of Nationalities of
Armenia, Jewish community members were present at the opening. As
PanARMENIAN.Net got informed, the opening meeting was accompanied by
violin music of Song of Songs of famous Armenian composer Willy Winer,
who announced a minute of silence to commemorate the innocent victims
of Holocaust and Genocide. Chief rabbi of Armenia Gersh Meir-Burstain
lit candles and read Kadish, after which music from Schindler’s List
film was played.