Lepsius House to open in Yerevan May 2April 24, 2011 - 10:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - It’s important to remember what happened in 1915, German ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt said after visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial on April 24. “I am glad to be accompanied today by a German delegation, the Friends of Lepsius House,” he said. The ambassador also informed that Lepsius House will open in Yerevan on May 2. “Presently, director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institutes Hayk Demoyan is negotiating with the German side. Johannes Lepsius (1858, Potsdam, Germany - 1926, Meran, Italy) was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Lepsius is known for his documentation of the Armenian Genocide. His work, "Report on the situation of the Armenian people in Turkey", was censored on August 7, 1916, however 20,000 copies were sent throughout Germany before the censorship was enforced. Another edition of the documentation is an interview with Enver Pasha in 1915 that bears the title "The death corridor of the Armenian people". One of Lepsius' most important works is, Germany and Armenia 1914-1918: Collection of Diplomatic documents, which later became considered as "the main document on the Armenian Genocide". Later, in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Werfel attributes two chapters to the description of Lepsius' struggle and his negotiations with Enver Pasha. Referring to the Holocaust, amb. Schmidt noted, “The young generation urged for accepting the responsibility for the crimes committed.” The Armenian Genocide The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres and deportations, involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Armenian Catholicos calls for national unity against threats Karekin II issued a message on Republic Day marking the anniversary of the First Armenian Republic. Opposition leader, supporters spend night at Sardarapat memorial Police made nearly 300 arrests the day before as Galstanyan and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan. Armenia designates flood-hit communities as disaster areas The emergency situation was created by floods caused by heavy rains in Armenia’s north on May 25-26. |