Gedenkveranstaltung zum 111. Jahrestag des Völkermords im Osmanischen Reich

In the organizer's words:

Devotion

April 24 is the day of remembrance of the genocide in the Ottoman Empire: on April 24, 1915, the Turkish government had leading Armenian intellectuals and politicians arrested in the capital Constantinople and deported to the interior of the country, where most of them were murdered. The arrests were the prelude to a crime to which over three million Christians - Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Arameans and Chaldeans - fell victim by 1922.

Armenians who survived the genocide in 1915/16 in the Ottoman Empire by seeking refuge among the Alevi population were persecuted by the Turkish state two decades later as Alevis. Today, their descendants are searching for their cultural and religious identity. In his book "Alevi and Alevi Armenians (Alevileş(tiril)miş Ermeniler)", published in Turkish and German, the author, investigative writer and documentary filmmaker Kâzım Gündoğan has compiled interviews with people of Armenian origin from the eastern Anatolian region of Dersim, which impressively show how the experiences of genocide, mass violence and expulsion have left a lasting mark on the survivors and their descendants. In particular, it shows what it means to no longer be able to preserve one's own ethnic and religious identity as a result of genocide.

Speech on the occasion of the day:

Dr. Tessa Hofmann, genocide researcher, philologist and author, on the book "Alevi and Alevi Armenians (Alevileş(tiril)miş Ermeniler)"

Musical supporting program:

Silva Schmedding-Farmasian (piano) and Polina Senatulova (violin)

Moderation:

Nahren Youssef, social scientist

An event of the Hamburg State Center for Political Education in cooperation with the main church St. Petri

Supported by the Armenische Gemeinde zu Hamburg von 1965 e. V., the Syrian Orthodox Church Hamburg, the Interkulturelle Denkfabrik e. V., the Alevitische Gemeinde Deutschland - Regionalvertretung Norden and the Mar Gabriel Verein e. V.