Public event on Bundestag resolution of the Armenian Genocide and its implementation to be held in Hanover

Hannover Historical Museum, Hannover Municipal Remembrance Culture, the German-Armenian Society and the Ada and Theodor-Lessing Adult Education Center Hannover jointly organize an event on the topic of "Armenian Genocide. From the Bundestag resolution to the Implementation in Lower Saxony. The event will take place on June 6 at Adult Education Center (Volkshochschule) Hannover.

As the organizers reports in a statement, on 2 June 2016, the German Bundestag passed the resolution "Remembrance and Memory of the Genocide of the Armenians and other Christian Minorities in 1915 and 1916". It says: "Today, school, university and political education in Germany has the task of picking up and communicating to future generations the study of the expulsion and annihilation of Armenians as part of the process of revising the history of ethnic conflicts in the 20th century. In particular, the federal states have an important role to play." Some federal states have complied with this request, but others have not. With their joint event "Armenian Genocide. From the Bundestag Resolution to the Implementation in Lower Saxony ", the Hannover Historical Museum, Hannover Municipal Remembrance Culture, the German-Armenian Society and the Ada and Theodor-Lessing Adult Education Center Hannover will on Thursday, June 6, 2019, 6:30pm thematize above all the state of affairs in Lower Saxony.