24 April - Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

The day of 24 April each year commemorates the massacres of the Armenian people that occurred in the Ottoman Empire during the years of the First World War. These terrible events are remembered in the Armenian language as Medz yeghern, or 'the great crime'. The killings began on the night of 23-24 April 1915, when the first arrests were made among the Armenian élite in Constantinople. The operation continued over the following days with numerous deportations to the interior of Anatolia.

 

On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, the Municipality of Venice organises, since 2022, a series of events and meetings between April and May 2023 in cooperation with Università Ca' Foscari Venezia,, the Unione Armeni in Italia and the  Europe Direct Venezia Veneto. 

 

=> View the official page of the City of Venice with all the information about the event 

 

Regardless of the words we use to describe the terrible events that took place in 1915, their historical reality cannot be denied. The European Commission (while recognising that EU member states still have different views on how to name the events of 1915), seeks ways to promote and support reconciliation. Reconciliation is a fundamental foundation of the European project and its basic values. It is essential that, in a spirit of reconciliation, countries are able to confront their past through open and frank debates. The EU encourages further significant steps paving the way for full reconciliation between Turkish and Armenian civil societies.  

Among the events to be mentioned:

• 19 April 2023 at the Biblioteca Hugo Pratt (Via Sandro Gallo 136/b, Lido di Venezia), at 5.30 p.m., a conference entitled “Women of the Armenian Genocide: Between Memory and Literature”.
• 20 April 2023 In addition to the City Ceremony in the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro (Campo San Salvador, San Marco 4810, Venice), at 6 p.m., the M9 auditorium hosted the screening of the video 'From genocide to the reconstruction of national identity'.
• 2 May 2023, First at 9.30 a.m. (dedicated to schools), then at 5.30 p.m., the Armenian Film Day was held at the Casa del Cinema (Palazzo Mocenigo, San Stae 1990, Venice).
• 4 May 2023 at 6:30 p.m. at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory (S. Marco 2810, Venice), piano concert in memory of the Armenian people.
  Below is the calendar of meetings, exhibitions, lectures and film screenings to keep alive the memory of what happened that opened with the town ceremony on Thursday, April 2023 at 11 a.m. in Venice at the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro.
• The full program
• The press release

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