AGMI and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation sign cooperation memorandum

YEREVAN, 11 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. As the Public Relations Department of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute reports to “Armenpress”, the memorandum signed by Hayk Demoyan and Steven Spielberg lays the foundation for future cooperation.

Through cooperation, the memoirs of 60 eyewitnesses of the Armenian Genocide will be digitized and will be publicly available as part of the Armenian Genocide Collection of the U.S.-based Shoah Foundation starting from April 24th, on the occasion of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

The memorandum will also provide the AGMI with the Shoah Foundation’s Virtual History Archives, thanks to which scholars and average citizens of Yerevan will have direct access to 52,000 collections devoted to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian Genocide. Both institutions will also collaborate to carry out educational programs.