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Joint Holocaust-Armenian Genocide Exhibit

Posted January 11th, 2008 by Mary
in
2008-01-20 14:00
2008-01-20 16:00

Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) will host a:

joint Holocaust - Armenian Genocide exhibit
Sunday, January 20, 2008
2:00-4:00 p.m
ALMA, 65 Main St., in the heart of Watertown (Mass.) Square

The Holocaust exhibit will include photos, video, and valuables formerly belonging to inmates at Auschwitz that have been recently unveiled by 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and Brighton (Mass.) resident Meyer
Hack.
As a laundry worker, Hack retrieved these pieces from inmates' clothing when the latter were removed from them. Miraculously, he hid them from the Nazis throughout his years in the camps.
These artifacts have not been publicly displayed before. After this event, they will be installed at the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in a special ceremony.
The Armenian Genocide exhibit, "In Memoriam," is the only permanent exhibit on Armenian Genocide in the United States. It is a memorial to the more-than-one million victims of the most tragic event in Armenia's 3,000-year history.

The Armenian Genocide exhibit will be accompanied by additional photographs from Project SAVE Armenian
Photograph Archives. Among these will be photographs of concentration camps taken by an Armenian WWII photographer from Belmont.

Mr. Meyer Hack, Holocaust survivor and resident of Brighton, and Mr. Kevork Norian, an Armenian Genocide survivor and resident of Arlington, Mass., will be the keynote speakers of the event.

WBZ radio talk host Jordan Rich will make the introductions.
The event will include ethnic music by Armenian and Jewish performers Martin Haroutunian, Ara Sarkissian, Cantor Robbie Solomon, Glenn Dickson and Grant Smith, poetry recitals, as well as religious invocations by
Armenian clergy and Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, from Temple Beth Zion in Brookline.

Honored guests of the event include State Senator Edward M. Augustus Jr., State Rep. Ruth B. Balser, State Rep. William N. Brownsberger, State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio,
State Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, State Rep. Alice H. Peisch, State Rep. Frank I. Smizik, State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., State Senator Marian Walsh, State Rep. Alice K. Wolf, WWII veteran and Dachau liberator Cranston "Chan" Rogers.

The event is sponsored by the following organizations:
* The Armenian Library and Museum of America
* The Armenian National Committee of America
* The Armenian Assembly of America
* Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives
* The Holocaust Center, Boston North
* Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark
University, Worcester
* Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline

Armenian and Kosher refreshments will be served at the event which is
free and open to the public. It will be alcohol-free, all ages, and
handicapped-accessible. There is on-street parking as well as a large
municipal parking lot behind the building. ALMA is very close to the
Mass. Turnpike Exit 17 and is on the route of many MBTA buses
(www.mbta.com). For more information please contact Christie Hardiman
at ALMA (617.926.2562 ext. 4) or Susie Davidson (617-566-7557) or
visit www.almainc.org.

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