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    ARMENIANS GOING TO NEW YORK FOR SHOAH GALA HONORING GEORGE CLOONEY

    http://asbarez.com/113617/armenians-going-to-new-york-for-shoah-gala-honoring-george-clooney/
    Friday, September 6th, 2013

    The event will honor actor George Clooney

    LOS ANGELES-The USC Shoah Foundation, whose digital archives soon will
    include the filmed testimonies of 400 Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses
    and survivors, will honor actor George Clooney at a gala dinner on
    October 3, in New York City - and significant Armenian attendance
    at the event is expected. The gala, chaired by Shoah founder Steven
    Spielberg, also will feature special guest Sandra Bullock and a
    musical performance by Norah Jones.

    Armenian Film Foundation Chairman Jerry Papazian said, "We are
    thrilled to be participating in this event, paving the way for the
    inclusion of these Armenian Genocide eyewitness testimonies into
    the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation. We are
    encouraging a large Armenian presence at the event in support of
    the project." Papazian confirmed that former U.S. Ambassador to the
    Republic of Armenia John Marshall Evans will attend the banquet as
    part of the Armenian contingent.

    Jon Stewart will emcee the gala honoring Clooney for his humanitarian
    work. The gala committee includes a broad spectrum of celebrities and
    influential people, including Matt Damon, Ralph Lauren, Jerry Seinfeld,
    William P. Lauder and Andrew Tisch. All of them are committed to
    helping raise money for the USC Shoah Foundation, whose mission is
    to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering
    they cause - through the educational use of the Foundation's visual
    history testimonies.

    Shoah is actively engaged in an international fund-raising campaign
    to ensure completion of the integration of the Armenian testimonies so
    that they can be presented to the world in time for the commemoration
    of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in April 2015.

    "It's crucial that we take the vital and precious words of those
    who went through the Armenian Genocide and make their testimonies
    available for students, educators and scholars so that they can learn
    directly from these eyewitnesses of history," said Stephen Smith,
    executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation.

    In April 2010, the Armenian Film Foundation and founder J. Michael
    Hagopian, along with his wife, Antoinette, entered into an agreement
    with the USC Shoah Foundation to license the 400 Armenian Genocide
    testimonies filmed by Hagopian to Shoah's Visual History Archive. Next
    month, Shoah will receive the digitized interviews from The Armenian
    Film Foundation. Upon delivery, these eyewitness accounts will be
    incorporated into the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive.

    Shoah's Visual History Archive is the largest digital collection of
    its kind in the world, with 105,000 hours of video testimony. The
    collection is available at 44 institutions around the world, and
    approximately one million students, researchers, teachers and lay
    people view the testimonies every year. In addition, thousands of
    high school students across the country can view the testimonies
    through IWitness, the Shoah Foundation Institute's educational
    website that makes 1,300 full life histories and testimonies of
    survivors of genocides from the Visual History Archive available to
    secondary students so they can create multimedia projects and complete
    interactive activities.

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