Addressing Armenian Genocide denial within Holocaust education programs
Holocaust education commissions, museums and nonprofit organizations that receive federal and/or state-level funding have played a pivotal role in raising awareness about the horrors of the Holocaust but sometimes overlook other genocides, treating them as mere afterthoughts. Only a few states, such as Rhode Island, Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan and California, are truly engaged in conversations about including the study of genocides outside of the Holocaust within state and federally-funded curriculum development and teacher training programs. Moreover, while these commissions and federally-supported institutions focus on Holocaust education, some of them continue to fund and promote deniers of the Armenian Genocide.
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Thank you Sarah for sharing your experience of continued denial efforts of the Armenian Genocide.
Recently I contacted (email) the director of the US Holocaust Museum in DC requesting planned activities commemorating the Armenian genocide in this taxpayer funded and supported museum. Since he did not answer, my first email, I sent a second requesting a follow up to my first. His response received two weeks after April 24, stated I could check the website.
My feeling and observation is that this Jewish fellow is likely in Armenian Genocide denier.
Shameful to him and his parents.
The Azeri government is now engaged in contacting many educational universities, supplying them endless funds to help deny the Armenian Genocide.
Armenians and non-Armenians must stay vigilant to the truth, and to pursue it at all extremes and costs.
Thank you Ms. Cohan, for your informative updates.
I find it very disheartening and disgraceful that the Holocaust survivor from Tennessee is an Armenian Genocide denier.
This is the second article in weeks, see Russian-Israeli blogger’s bold efforts to support Armenia and Artsakh, that unveils further Genocide denialism from Israeli/Zionist individuals and organizations.
It is very difficult to see this behavior from those who also suffered immensely, and using Real Polotik as an excuse is totally unacceptable.