“THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN LITERATURE” EXHIBITION OPENS IN YEREVAN

16:26, 22 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

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Today at Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex, RA President
Serzh Sargsyan, Chairman of the State Commission on Coordination of the
Events for the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, watched an exhibition by the National Library of Armenia
titled “The Armenian Genocide in Literature” which is devoted to the
Armenian Genocide Centennial. The exhibition is being held from 22
to 23 April of 2015 as part of the social and political global forum
“Against the Crime of Genocide.”

Out of around 3000 literary, fiction, historical, analytical and
journalistic books about the Armenian Genocide, the library presents
more than 900 units of literature which have been translated into
23 languages in 37 countries of the world, focusing on different
time periods. While touring the exhibition pavilions, the President
was informed that the exhibition displays books which are exclusive,
being among the first to mention the Armenian Genocide, and present
memories of famous foreign nationals, witnesses and their heirs,
as well as their assessment of the tragedy. The books’ fiction and
ideological content and the reliability of their sources have been
praised across different time periods and the contribution of their
authors to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is invaluable.

Some of the book authors participating in the exhibition introduced
and presented the Armenian President with their works.

Accompanied by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and
Catholicos of All Armenians, Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of
the Council of Europe, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chair of the opening
session of the global forum “Against the Crime of Genocide,” and Daniel
Feierstein, President of the International Association of Genocide
Scholars, the Armenian President also visited a photo exhibition titled
“Genocide” which displays the works of the eight best photographers of
the world pertaining to genocides, including the Armenian Genocide,
as well as to violence which caused different conflicts and human
tragedies. Among those photographers, who today continue to work
in the most dangerous places of the world, is Jan Grarup, a famous
photographer, whose works about the Rwanda and Darfur Genocides are
considered as undeniable facts of those crimes.

The photographers popularize their works hoping that the terrific
crimes against humanity reflected in them will never reoccur.

From: Baghdasarian