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Armenian Genocide victims to be commemorated in Berlin

12.04.2008 14:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ This year the Armenian community in
Berlin is organizing a program for the day of
commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims. The
commemorative address will be given this year by the
Vice President of the German Bundestag, Dr. Susanne
Kastner, and Rabbi Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama, the
director of the documentation center for the history
of national socialism, Topography of Terror
Foundation, as well as by the Ambassador of the
Republic of Armenia, I.E. Karine Ghazinian, the
Armenian community of Berlin told PanARMENIAN.Net

The Berlin commemoration event will be musically
accompanied by the internationally renowned pianist
Vardan Mamikonian.

The ceremony of remembrance will be held on April 24,
2008 at 6:00pm in the Französischen
Friedrichstadtkirche (French cathedral), Am
Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin.

Last year the remembrance event on April 24 in the
German capital Berlin in commemoration for the victims
of the Armenian Genocide was well received, both
publicly and politically. The speakers were the
highest representative of the Federal Republic of
Germany, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the
German Bundestag, and Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Reemtsma,
director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research,
a leading figure in the public debates about genocide
in Germany. Among the guests at the remembrance event
were numerous ambassadors, state secretaries und
parliamentarians of the German Bundestag as well as
various state parliamentarians.