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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    `The Morgenthau Story' documentary to be screened in Belmont
    01.11.2008 15:50 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The National Association for Armenian Studies and
    Research (NAASR) will host a screening of The Morgenthau Story, a new
    documentary by Massachusetts-based filmmaker and artist Apo Torosyan's
    at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord
    Ave. in Belmont. The event will be co-sponsored by Mashtots Chair in
    Armenian Studies at Harvard University and NAASR, and Mashtots
    Professor James R. Russell will provide an introduction to the film,
    wickedlocal.com reports.

    The Morgenthau Story tells the story of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's
    commitment to helping humanity. From 1913 to 1916, he served as
    U.S. Ambassador in Constantinople, and with the beginning of the
    Armenian Genocide in the spring of 1915 he appealed without success to
    the Ottoman leaders to stop the killings. In 1923, during the
    aftermath of the genocide and expulsion of Armenians, Greeks, and
    Assyrians, he helped save thousands of lives by successfully leading
    the Refugee Relief Committee in Greece.

    Torosyan interweaves the story of Morgenthau with interviews with
    three of his descendants: grandsons Henry Morgenthau III and Robert
    M. Morgenthau, and great-granddaughter Dr. Pamela Steiner.

    Torosyan was born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Armenian and Greek
    parents. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Istanbul's
    Academy of Fine Arts. His previous films include Bread Series, Water,
    The Gates, Witnesses, Discovering My Father's Village: Edincik, and
    Voices. He is an active member of the Boston Printmakers and the
    International Association of Genocide Scholars.

    Torosyan has had many solo and group art shows all over the U.S. and
    Europe, and his work has appeared in private and corporate collections
    in Turkey, Greece, Spain, France, Armenia, Canada, and the U.S. One of
    his works, `My Father's Letter,' 1991, was selected by the Museum of
    Modern Art at Tonneins, Bordeaux, France, for its permanent
    collection. His `Bread Series' is also in the permanent collection of
    the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, MA, and the
    Flaten Art Museum in Northfield, MN.
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