13.04.2024


The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has quite rich collections and a library which are added to by individual donations from Armenia and abroad. Vardan Hambardzumyan, Executive Director of the YMCA European Alliance, was recently received by the AGMI and presented it, on behalf of Eglantina Lula, the General Secretary of the YMCA Albania, with Albanian books, dictionaries and video recordings made of Armenian Genocide survivors which belonged to Khovasar Chakhmakhchian, a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, who taught chemistry in schools and universities in Albania and is now retired.

Jean-Pierre Kotchyan, advisor to the mayor of Saint-Etienne and a descendant of an Armenian Genocide survivor, who visited Armenia and the Armenian Genocide Memorial in November last year, presented the AGMI with another CD of the Armenian Genocide survivors.

The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute thanked the donors and expressed the hope that these collaborations will become examples for all those who are well-acquainted with their roots, have interesting family stories, memoirs, photographs, documents and other relics about the Armenian Genocide, or in general about any Armenian-populated region of western Armenia, Cilicia or the Ottoman Empire. These relics may become invaluable sources for further research and exhibition.