EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS UNDER TITLE "IN BATTLEFIELDS OF TWO WORLD WARS" TO BE ORGANIZED WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF YEAR OF ARMENIA IN FRANCE

Noyan Tapan
Jan 08 2007

YEREVAN, JANUARY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. Exhibition of photographs under the
title "In the Battlefields of Two World Wars" will be organized in
spring within the framework of Year of Armenia in France. Noyan Tapan
correspondent was informed about it by Amatuni Virabian, Director of
Armenian National Archives.

In his words, photographs of Armenian legion fighting as part of
the French army during the World War I, as well as Armenian partisan
regiment formed in 1944-45 in France kept at Armenian National Archives
will be shown. In the words of the Director of Armenian National
Archives, Armenian fighters making 98% of the regiment were taken
prisoners by Germans and moved to France during the Patriotic War.