15:22, 24 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. The Director of the Holocaust Museum in the U.S. promised to organize a vast exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As reports “Armenpress” citing Skokie periodical, the Director of the Museum Rick Hirschhaut stated that 
in the next month they will hold a two-day conference titled “The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians”. Among other things Hirschhaut underscored: “We must speak for those, whose voices were silenced and for those who survived so we may remember and pledge never to forget. Today, at this gathering, we are reminded of a history that must be recognized, and remembered, and calls to the importance of lighting the torch of truth for the world community. Our young people – our future – must be a bridge to the future, and ensure that we realize the lessons that were set forth by us, by the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and all such terrible atrocities.”
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as a genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, and Australia.