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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Armenian Genocide victims to be commemorated in Berlin

    12.04.2008 14:46 GMT+04:00

    /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.
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