PRESS RELEASE Association for the Research and the Archiving of Armenian Memory (ARAM) 8, bis Place Pelabon 13013 - Marseille FRANCE
Contact: Vartan Arzoumanian Tel: +33 4 91 06 57 36 E-mail: [email protected] Web: https://webaram.com/en/
Call to people of Armenian descent to help collect and digitize 1915 (or 1895) Armenian survivors’ written testimonies
The
Association for the Research and the Archiving of Armenian Memory
(ARAM) is an association based in France whose aim is to gather and
archive documents about the life of Armenian communities in the diaspora
(see webaram.com/en/).
The
ARAM association has initiated a program to collect written testimonies
on 1915 (or 1895) and on the exodus of the Armenian communities to
France, Lebanon and the United States (but also Egypt, Bulgaria,
Syria…)
We are earnestly requesting you to contact us if you happen to possess a manuscript written by a 1915 (or 1895) survivor.
We fully understand that these testimonies are very dear to Armenian families and we propose to keep a digital copy only.
These
testimonies are an integral part of the Armenian diaspora’s cultural
heritage and we would like to digitize them in order to make them
available to the general public as well as historians.
These key documents for historians will be archived at the ARAM association’s digital library.
Please, get in touch with us to know more about this digitization program here :
https://webaram.com/en/contact-us
CALL to collect written testimonies written by survivors of 1915 (or 1895).
ARAM:
The association is a French-Armenian non-profit association that has maintained its goal
the memory of the life lived by Armenians in the Diaspora (see: The Union wants testimonies
learn about the events of 1915 (or 1895) and the migration of Armenian survivors
to France, Lebanon and the United States.
We will appeal to the families so that in 1915
This
testimonies are important, the memory of the Armenian Genocide
to preserve and are part of the cultural heritage of Diaspora Armenians
inheritance.
ARAM Union is aware that these testimonies
are valuable for families. Therefore, we will offer a simple number
make a copy for the union’s archives.
The purpose of ARAM Union
The dissemination and knowledge of these evidences has provided expansion
by preparing translations and publications.
For more information, contact us:
https://webaram.com/hy/
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