19.06.2024


Hollywood actor, producer, director Joe Manganiello on May 29 visited the Dzidzernagapert Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum, accompanied by Zareh Sinanyan, High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs.

Terviz Rose Darakjian, Manganiello’s maternal great-grandmother, survived the Armenian Genocide. Her husband and seven children were killed by the Turks, and the 8th drowned while fleeing across the Euphrates River. Shortly after these events, Terviz’s ninth child, Sirarpi, the grandmother of Manganiello, was born. The actor talks about his great-grandmother from Kharberd with great excitement and admiration.

The guests were welcomed and escorted to the Armenian Genocide Memorial by Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute. Manganiello also toured the Armenian Genocide Museum, where he was acquainted with the permanent and temporary exhibitions accompanied by the deputy director of the Museum Lusine Abrahamyan, and left a note in the memorial book of honored guests. Expressing gratitude for the visit, Abrahamyan presented books on the Armenian Genocide to the honored guest.

At the end of the visit, Manganiello planted a fir tree in the Memory Alley in memory of his great-grandmother, Terviz Rose Darakjian, and grandmother, Sirarpi, fulfilling a long-held dream.