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...author of a book on 20th-century genocides....
...One is a stained and yellowed needlework sampler made by a 12-year-old adopted relative named Lucy after she’d lost her biological parents in the Armenian genocide of 1915-16....
...From a rooftop, I could see a mosque’s dome shaped like a swollen water drop, and an Armenian church....
...He was put on trial in 2005 for “insulting Turkishness” after his comments about the Armenian genocide. An international outcry ensued and the case was eventually dropped....
...Its 60,000 rare and early books can still be consulted by researchers, and the building can be visited as a museum....
...We touch on the terrible subject of the Armenian genocide and his family’s subsequent escape to Egypt, where they “had a small factory making the button clips for military uniforms.”...
...Some featured here, such as Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin or David Adjaye’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, are really museums rather than...
...“The Kaiser got his palace back, but there is still no memorial to the Herero and Nama,” said Mr Zimmerer....
...At the Memorial Center, Suljagic says: “Genocide denied is genocide repeated....
...A stone’s throw away, three memorials compete for the public’s attention: one each for Brcko’s Croat, Bosniak and Serb defenders....
...“All over the world people were inspired by the courage and commitment of Aung San Suu Kyi during her years of house arrest,” said Stephen Rapp, a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and a former...
...— Armenians, Bosniaks and Tutsis, for instance — but of those currently suffering the theft of civil rights on account of their race or religion: the Uighurs, Rohingya, the defenceless children of Latino...
...The arts Though visual artists have continued to work, with galleries and museums closed, exhibitions cancelled and the commercial art world slowed, they are struggling....
...Vostanik Adoian, as he was born, arrived aged 16 at Ellis Island, refugee of the Armenian genocide which had claimed his mother....
...My grandfather and great-grandparents escaped during the Armenian genocide. Almost all traces of Armenian history from that part of the former Ottoman empire — now eastern Turkey — have been destroyed....
...“I remember always being interested in made objects,” Sir Jonathan said in an interview at the London Design Museum in 2003, “I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.”...
...The genocide in the crumbling Ottoman Empire a century ago remains a heavy historical burden in Armenia, memorialised in a moving museum in the capital city Yerevan....
...Even as city life continued in some form, the capital was an accomplice to genocide. Amsterdam was 10 per cent Jewish before the war, when most were deported and murdered....
...One interviewee cites the example of Turkey’s refusal to fully acknowledge or atone for the Armenian genocide — a trauma that is left unhealed and continues to cause great pain....
...He has shifted his focus and now serves on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is chairman of the Museum of Jewish Heritage....
...Holocaust survivors warned of the continuing danger of racism and prejudice as shortlisted designs for a Holocaust memorial in Britain went on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...Long after it was abundantly clear that all the explorers were dead, Lady Jane sat in the upstairs drawing room of the Athenaeum and watched as a memorial statue she had persuaded parliament to build was...
...The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said such statements created the impression that the government “believes that anti-Semitism, racial and religious prejudice, and genocide merit praise rather than universal...
...And so it had. To September 17, moma.org Photographs: Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art; Moderna Museet/ Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Cy Twombly Foundation; Broadside Art, Inc....
...In deference to Turkey, he has declined to use the term “genocide” to describe the massacre of Armenians in 1915....
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