Holocaust Memorial Center Hosts Armenian Genocide Speaker April 10

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus announced Dr. Robert Melson as the featured speaker for a presentation on the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust at 7 p.m. on April 10.

Titled, “Two Survivors' Perspectives: The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust,” Melson explores perpetrators’ means and motives, as well as survivors’ courage and survival during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, focusing on the stories of Armenian Bishop Grigoris Balakian and the Jewish Mendelsohn family.

Melson is Professor Emeritus at Purdue University and past president of the International Association ofGenocide Scholars.  His publications include “Revolution and Genocide: On the Orgins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.”  He also has lectured on ethnic conflict and genocide at venues around the world.

This annual genocide commemoration is presented in cooperation with the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, and the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. Learn more at www.holocaustcenter.org.

Source: Holocaust Memorial Center press release