Some 400 representatives from all over the world will attend a workshop and conference on the Holocaust and genocide, to be held in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in June.
Conference chairman Prof. Israel Chamy, of Tel Aviv University, and conference co-director Prof. Shamai Davidson, of Bar Ilan University, said the aim of the conference was to foster understanding of the roots and implementation of genocide in order to intervene in time to prevent it.
Participants will come from countries as far apart and disparate as the United States, Europe, Armenia, Biafra, Japan and Tibet, with national representatives analyzing instances of genocide to their own peoples. The organizers point out that if there had been a sufficient outcry at the Armenian massacre after World War I the Holocaust might not have occurred to Jews in World War II.
The president of the conference will be Elie Wiesel. It will be held in conjunction with the Holocaust Survivors Memorial Foundation in the U.S., with co-sponsorship of Hunter College in New York, and the Henrietta Szold National Institute for Research in the Behaviorial Sciences in Jerusalem.
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