PBS Florida Station to Show Film on Armenian Genocide

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS: The Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education at Florida Atlantic University is sponsoring “The Greatest Crime of the War: Armenian Genocide During World War I,” an exhibition on loan from the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, from Wednesday, March 30 through Wednesday, April 27, at the Wimberly Library on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road.

An official from the university told Armenpress that the exhibition displays the systematic murder of more than one million Armenians in Anatolia during the middle of World War I, between 1915 and 1916, and sporadically until 1923. The story is told through 21 free-standing panels that showcase photographs, quotes from witnesses, and the history and legacy of the genocide. Historians and human rights organizations contend that the Armenian Genocide was the first well documented genocide of the 20th century, but it is generally overlooked or denied.

“It is important for our community to learn about and memorialize the Armenian victims just as we memorialize and educate about the Shoah,” said Rose Gatens, Ph.D., director of the FAU Center for Holocaust and Human Rights on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. “Remembering strengthens our commitment to prevent and intervene against genocide.”

The exhibition is being offered April as part of Genocide Awareness Month, which is observed to increase awareness and prevention of genocides. Within the framework of the exhibition, the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station in Florida will show April 12 a film on the Armenian Genocide. A two-hour discussion will follow.