PASADENA ANC JOINS JEWISH COMMUNITY IN MARKING HOLOCAUST AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Asbarez
Apr 14th, 2010

PASADENA-Members of the Armenian American community will join together
with their Jewish-American neighbors in the City of Pasadena on April
11th to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Pasadena Jewish Temple
and Center. The event will honor Holocaust survivors and will also
mark the Armenian Genocide.

The Pasadena Armenian National Committee has reached out over the
past several years to build ties with the Jewish-American community
in the City of Pasadena.

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chief sponsor of the Armenian
Genocide resolution pending in the U.S. House of Representatives,
is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Holocaust Remembrance Day
event at the Temple. Father Khoren Baboushian from Pasadena’s St.

Sarkis church will light a candle in remembrance to all victims of
crimes against humanity and then provide a prayer to those survivors
and victims of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide.

"We are pleased to be participating in a human rights event being
organized by the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center to mark the
Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and all crimes against humanity,"
remarked Pasadena ANC Executive Director Ishkhan Boghossian. "The
Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide represent dark moments in our
collective memory and are events that can never be forgotten,"
Boghossian added.

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center’s event marking Holocaust
Remembrance Day will be held on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at 6:30pm. The
event will feature a concert honoring Holocaust survivors, where
several outstanding international artists will take part. The Temple
is located at 1434 North Altadena Drive in Pasadena.