Statement
by 126 Holocaust Scholars, Holders of Academic Chairs, and Directors of Holocaust
Research and Studies Centers
– March 7th, 2000
126 Holocaust Scholars Affirm The Incontestable Fact Of The Armenian Genocide And Urge Western Democracies To Officially Recognise It As Such
At the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Scholar’s Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches Convening at St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 3-7, 2000, one hundred and twenty-six Holocaust Scholars, holders of Academic Chairs and Directors of Holocaust Research and Studies Centers, participants of 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 likewise 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 at the 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, Youngston 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
Rabbi Dr. Steve Jacobs – Temple Sinai Shalom, Huntsville,
Alabama; Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Genocide
Prof. Steven Katz – Distinguish Professor, Director,
Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University
Prof. Richard Libowitz – Temple University
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 Distinguished
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
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 one hundred and twenty-six signatories 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