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US Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean visits Guba Genocide Memorial Complex

US Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean visits Guba Genocide Memorial Complex
# 28 September 2016 17:20 (UTC +04:00)

Head of Guba District Executive Power Yashar Mammadov informed the guests about the district. 

 

Rabbi Abraham Cooper visited the Red Settlement (Qırmızı Qesebe) densely populated by mountain Jews. He familiarized with two synagogues and the cultural center in the district.

 

Cooper also visited Guba Genocide Memorial Complex and the mass graveyard. He was informed that the mass graveyard was revealed in 1 April 2007 during excavation works. Later, employees of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences conducted extensive researches which revealed that the graveyard was related to the genocide committed in 1918 by Armenians against civilians. After familiarization, the guest signed the guestbook of the complex.

 

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