17.01.2024


Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, Member of the National Council of Austria, headed a delegation visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex, accompanied by Shirak Torosyan, the head of the Armenia-Austria Friendship Group of the National Assembly of Armenia, on January 17, 2024.

Lusine Abrahamyan, AGMI Deputy Director for Museum Affairs, welcomed the guests. She then accompanied them round the Genocide Memorial complex, presenting the history of its creation. Emphasising the connection with the Armenian Genocide, Mrs. Lusine Abrahamyan also narrated the history of the three khachkars placed in Tsitsernakaberd in memory of the Armenians who died in the massacres organized by the government of Azerbaijan in the cities of Sumgait, Kirovabad (Gandzak), and Baku at the end of the 20th century, as well as the stories of the five freedom fighters buried in front of the Memory Wall who died during the Artsakh struggle for survival.

Members of the Austrian delegation laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and observed a minute’s silence in memory of the innocent martyrs of the Armenian Genocide.

Mrs. Lusine Abrahamyan also led the guests through permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Armenian Genocide Museum. Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic left a note in the Memory Book for Honoured Guests.