126 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS AFFIRM THE INCONTESTABLE FACT OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND URGE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE IT

At the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, convening at St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 3-7, 2000, one hundred twenty-six Holocaust scholars, holders of Academic Chairs and Directors of Holocaust Research and Studies Centers, participants in the conference, signed a statement affirming that the World War I Armenian Genocide is an incontestable historical fact and accordingly urge the governments of Western Democracies to recognize it as such. The petitioners, among whom is Nobel Laureate for Peace Elie Wiesel, who was the keynote speaker at the conference, also asked the Western Democracies to urge the Government and Parliament of Turkey  to finally come to terms with a dark chapter of Ottoman-Turkish history and to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This would provide an invaluable impetus to the process of the democratization of Turkey.

Below is a partial list of the signatories:
 

Prof. Yehuda Bauer      Distinguished Professor,      Hebrew University,      Director, The International       Institute of Holocaust       Research, Yad Vashem,       Jerusalem Prof. Israel Charny, Director,      Institute of the Holocaust and       Genocide, Jerusalem,      Professor of Hebrew University;       Editor-in-Chief of The      Encyclopedia of Genocide Prof. Ward Churchill,      Ethnic Studies,      The University of Colorado,       Boulder Prof. Stephen Feinstein, Director      Center for Holocaust and       Genocide Studies,      University of Minnesota Prof. Saul Friedman, Director,      Holocaust and Jewish Studies,      Youngstown State University,       Ohio Prof. Edward Gaffney,      Valparaiso University      Law School Prof. Zev Garber,      Los Angeles Valley College Prof. Dorota Glowacka,      University of King’s College,      Halifax, Nova Scotia Dr. Irving Greenberg, President,      Jewish Life Network Prof. Herbert Hirsch,      Virginia Commonwealth       University

Prof. Irving L. Horowitz,      Hannah Arendt Distinguished       Professor,Rutgers University, NJ Dr. Steven Jacobs, Rabbi,      Temple Sinai Shalom,      Huntsville, Alabama      Associate Editor of  The       Encyclopedia of Genocide Prof. Steven Katz,      Distinguished Professor,      Director, Center for Judaic       Studies,       Boston University Prof. Richard Libowitz,      Temple University Dr. Marcia Littell,      Stockton College,      Exec. Director, Scholars’       Conference on the Holocaust and       the Churches Franklin H. Littell,      Distinguished Professor of       Holocaust and Genocide Studies,       Stockton College      Co-founder, Annual Scholars’       Conference on the Holocaust and       the Churches Prof. Hubert G. Locke,      Washington University,      Co-founder, Annual Scholars’       Conference on the Holocaust and       the Churches Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell,      Executive Director of the       International Scholarly       Conference on the Holocaust,       London, England

Prof. Erik Markusen,      Southwest State University, MN Prof. Saul Mendlowitz,      Dag Hammerskjold Distinguised      Professor of International Law,       Rutgers University Prof. Jack Needle, Director      Center for Holocaust Studies,      Brookdale Community College      Lincroft, NJ Dr. Philip Rosen, Director,      Holocaust Education       Center of the Delaware       Valley Prof. Alan S. Rosenbaum,      Dept. of Philosophy,      Cleveland State University Prof. Richard Rubinstein,      President Emeritus, and       Distinguished Professor of       Religion,      University of Bridgeport, CT William L. Shulman, President,      Association of Holocaust       Organizations,      City University of New York Prof. Samuel Totten,      The University of Arkansas,      Assoc. Editor of       The Encyclopedia       of Genocide Prof. Elie Wiesel,      Andrew W. Mellon Professor in       the Humanities,       Boston University;       Founding Chairman of the United       States Holocaust Memorial       Council;      Nobel Laureate for Peace

I hereby declare that the originals of these 126 signatures are on file in my office.
All affiliations supplied are for identification purposes only.

 Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director,
 Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota

 
 
 

PAID FOR BY DESCENDANTS OF SURVIVORS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST