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Armenian National Committee |
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The
Bay Area
Armenian National
Committee (ANC-SF) is a grassroots public affairs organization serving to
inform, educate, and act on a wide range of issues concerning Armenian Americans
throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
November 7, 1989
(Passed unanimously)
1915 GENOCIDE OF OVER 1 MILLION ARMENIANS
The massacre of over 1.5 million Armenians
beginning in 1915 by the Ottoman Turks and
the subsequent exile of an additional
500,000 Armenians is one of the most
shameful chapters of modern history.
Elie Wiesel, a past U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council chairman said, "Before the planning
of the final solution, Hitler said, "Who
remembers the Armenians." He was right. No
one remembered them, as no one remembered
the Jews. Rejected by everyone, they felt
expelled from history."
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Executive
Council has unanimously agreed to include
reference to the Armenian and other
genocides to help illuminate or relate to
the story of the holocaust.
We recognize that the Turkey of today is
vastly different from the Ottoman Empire of
1915. Our respect for modern Turkey's
traditions of pluralism should not deter us
from learning the lessons of past mistakes.
The genocide is one of those instances of
mass destruction which has both preceded and
followed the holocaust to which the U.A.H.C.
has drawn notice over the years, that their
lessons might not be forgotten (among them
Biafra and Cambodia).
Therefore, the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations resolves to:
1.
Commend the executive committee
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum for its announced
decision to include reference to
the Armenian and other genocides
to the extent that they help
illuminate or relate to the
story of the holocaust.
2. Instruct the reform
movement's Religious Action
Center in Washington to
encourage passage of S.J.
Resolution 212, a joint
resolution now before the U.S.
Senate designating April 24,
1990 as "National Day of
Remembrance of the 75th
Anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915-1923."
3. Educate our congregates as to
the facts and the lessons of
these tragic chapters of modern
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