Armenian Genocide victims to be commemorated in Berlin

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.