On January 27 is an international Remembrance Day of over 6 million victims of Holocaust, the Jews Genocide. This is also the day of remembering the Holocaust survivors. That’s why, today, dozens of people organized candle-lighting ceremony at the memorial with a note “To live and not to forget” erected in memory of the victims of the Armenian and Jewish people’s Genocide and put flowers underneath the memmorial. “This day, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, is very important to the entire world, because the whole world was involved in this war. The camp was liberated by the Soviet army presenting all nationalities,” says the head of the Jewish community in Armenia Rima Varzhapetyan.
Alongside the Jewish Holocaust, the world remembers also the Armenian Genocide. But Israel, the state of Jews who passed survived the genocide and passed through the same tragedy, is among those who remember and do not recognize. Why? “You keep asking the same question, which has the same answer. This is a politics, this is an economy, this is the security issue of Israeli citizens. Believe me, every individually Jew accepts and recognizes what happened as genocide,” says the head of the Jewish community in Armenia.
To the question of whether ahead to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide we can expect that the Armenian genocide resolution will be raised at the Israeli Knesset, R. Varzhapetyan recalled that the Knesset is expecting elections in the near future, after the formation of the new parliamentary stuff, they will re-apply with the same request. “I am just asking you not to touch upon the names of Armenians and Jews in the context of xenophobia and hatred, and expose the relations between the two nations to provocation,” she urged.
Siranush HAYRAPETYAN
