27.07.2024


On July 25, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) held a presentation for its 2023 publications in the museum's conference hall. AGMI Director Edita Gzoyan welcomed attendees and introduced the publications, highlighting that they were initiated during the tenure of former AGMI Director Harutyun Marutyan. Mrs. Gzoyan emphasized the importance of the unique memoirs of Armenian Genocide survivors preserved in the AGMI archives.

Harutyun Marutyan presented the 2023 issues of the Journal for Genocide Studies and the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, noting the increasing focus on Artsakh in the English-language journal. Editors of the memoirs shared brief speeches about the lives and biographies of the survivors, stressing their significance for genocide studies.

Relatives of survivor-memorialists from Armenia and the Diaspora attended the event, listening with pride and gratitude to their ancestors' stories.

The following publications were presented:

Harutyun Grigoryan: My Biography (Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors, Vol. 10)

Ravished Armenian: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian (Russian translation, Vol. 11)

Gazanjian Garnik Memoir and Hovhannes Pilipposian: Memories of a Survivor from Arabkir (Vol. 12)

Additionally, French-Armenian historian Raymond Kévorkian's Le Genocide des Arméniens et ses Conséquences and Dr. Arsen Avagyan's Геноцид армян. механизмы принятия и исполнения решений were also featured.