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As he began his invasion of Poland, Hitler asked, "Who remembers the Armenians? "We do." We do not compare pain, we cannot. We do not compare numbers, we must not. We do say, over and over again, that genocide is part of the human psyche, its spectre resides in each of us. The remembrance, the memorialization, the command to "Never Forget" have no meaning without context.
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Barsamian makes us witnesses for the witnesses, matzevot, tombstones, for the dead. In Sacred Spaces, Barsamian confronts us with the first genocide of the last century. We examine this people and their murder, their survival. We are immersed in the themes of lace and language, victim and persecutor, death and survival. Sadness is a normal reaction, anger also. Barsamian makes us think. Let us hope that he leads us to action. |
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