ARMENIAN JEWS REVERED MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Jewish community of Armenia expresses frank condolences to the Armenian people due to the Armenian Genocide, as a nation, which has experienced such a grief can conceive the pain of another one. As reported by "Arminfo" agency, rabbi Gersh Burshtein stated at a measure in Yerevan devoted to the memory of Holocaust victims. In her turn in the course of the measure head of the Jewish community of Armenia Rimma Varzhapetian noted the humanity "should remember the evil committed and all our thoughts and actions should aim at struggle against it." She emphasized there were no explicit manifestations of anti-Semitism in Armenia, "although it is already the second year that April 23 - on the eve of the commemoration day of the victims of the Armenian Genocide - young representatives of "Dashnaktsutyun" party burn the Turkish flag, on which the Star of David - the symbol of the Jewish people - appears for some reason."