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ATTEMPT MADE TO INTERRUPT PRESENTATION OF BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 03 2007
NEW YORK, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The presentation of
the book "The Knock at the Door" by Margaret Achemian-Ahnert took
place on May 1 in the bookstore "Barnes & Noble" in New York.
According to "The New York Times", some persons attempted to interrupt
the presentation by shouting that there was not any genocide and
distributing leaflets denying the Armenian Genocide.
The 209-page book "The Knock at the Door" tells how the mother of
the author survived the genocide during World War I and reached the US.
In the words of Ms Ahnert, she did not want "The Knock at the Door"
to become a political story. "I just tried to tell the story about
my mother and not to make a political statement," she said. "My
book is not only about the Armenian Genocide but also about how my
mother grew up and in what way the events that occured in her life
influenced me. These are memories of mother and daughter. I did not
make any historical statement."
Among the guests was Mr Robert M. Morgenthau, grandson of Henry
Morgenthau, US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1913-1916.
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 03 2007
NEW YORK, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The presentation of
the book "The Knock at the Door" by Margaret Achemian-Ahnert took
place on May 1 in the bookstore "Barnes & Noble" in New York.
According to "The New York Times", some persons attempted to interrupt
the presentation by shouting that there was not any genocide and
distributing leaflets denying the Armenian Genocide.
The 209-page book "The Knock at the Door" tells how the mother of
the author survived the genocide during World War I and reached the US.
In the words of Ms Ahnert, she did not want "The Knock at the Door"
to become a political story. "I just tried to tell the story about
my mother and not to make a political statement," she said. "My
book is not only about the Armenian Genocide but also about how my
mother grew up and in what way the events that occured in her life
influenced me. These are memories of mother and daughter. I did not
make any historical statement."
Among the guests was Mr Robert M. Morgenthau, grandson of Henry
Morgenthau, US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1913-1916.