Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Genocide
May 2014 update from Combat Genocide Association
The month of April was “Combat Genocide Month” in Israel. Our
activities included:
A program commemorating Rwandan Genocide Remembrance Day, in Tel Aviv.
Five different events, ceremonies, and demonstrations about the
Armenian Remembrance Day, on April 24 in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Hundreds of activists took part in an unprecedented rally in front of
the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv.
A series of lectures about the Holocaust for Darfurian genocide
survivors who found asylum in Israel. We also organized a trip for
Darfur refguees to visit the Holocaust museum in northern Israel.
On the occasion of Darfur Global Day, Darfurians, Jews and others
gathered in Tel Aviv to commemorate 11 years of genocide against the
indigenous people of Darfur by the barbarous Khartoum regime.
Despite the Holocaust, and other crimes committed by the Nazi regime
in World War II, the world has ever since then been exposed to repeated
cases of mass atrocities.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and the
upcoming commemoration of the July 1995 Srebrenica genocide, an
international conference was held in Brussels on March 31-April 1 to
discuss what can be learned from those killings. We are honored to
publish on our website an important speech by our partner Prof. Yehuda
Bauer: “CAN MASS ATROCITIES BE PREVENTED?”
Rally in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv – April 24th
Global Day for Darfur in Tel Aviv – April 30th
75 YEARS SINCE THE “VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED’:
ARE WE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT?
The eleventh national conference of The David S. Wyman Institute for
Holocaust Studies will focus on the 75th anniversary of the voyage of
the St. Louis and its implications for our own era.
Sessions will include: “Answering Revisionist Attacks on the St.
Louis” (with historian Rafael Medoff) … “Voices of the
Survivors” (with St. Louis passengers Mrs. Ronnie Breslow & Mrs. Sonja
Geismar, and longtime National Public Radio host Martin Goldsmith,
author of a new book about the St. Louis) … “The Relevance of
the St. Louis in Today’s World” (with Rwanda survivor Jacqueline
Murekatete; Armenian representative Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian, and Prof.
Thane Rosenbaum). Plus: a special screening of the short Disney film,
“Voyage of the Doomed.”
It will be held on Sunday, June 1, 2014, from 1:00 to 5:30 pm, at the
Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62 St., New York City (right
behind Lincoln Center). Admission is free, and there is no need to
register in advance; seating is first come, first served. The
conference is cosponsored by the Combat Genocide Association. For more
information, call the Wyman Institute at 202-434-8994 or write to:
[email protected]
The conference chair is Andrew M. Kluger; emcee is Prof. Thane
Rosenbaum.
HaNoar HaOved Ve HaLomed standing with the Armenians in Jerusalem –
April 24th
Armenian remembrance ceremony in Jerusalem – April 23rd
Combat Genocide Association – A Jewish and Universal organization – NGO
Kibbutz Galuyot 120, Tel aviv 66877
Phone: 972-03-5125100 Fax: 972-03-5125105
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From: Baghdasarian