Sara Cohan, the education director of the Genocide Education Project, was the keynote speaker at the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program hosted by the Holocaust Education Resource Council at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Florida.
Tallahassee City Commissioner Gil Ziffer and Jackie Pons, Superintendent of Leon County School District, were among the attendees. Holocaust survivor Miriam Schlezinger was one of the honored guests, the Armenian Weekly reported.
Cohan shared her own family’s story as survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Her grandfather died without the perpetrators being held accountable, nor any amount of justice being served. Cohan detailed the history of the emergence of the term genocide, introduced by Raphael Lemkin, in part as a result of his study of the Turkish atrocities against Armenians, and she discussed the growth of international courts to prosecute perpetrators of genocide. She emphasized the need for the United States’ support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Holocaust Remembrance Day event was the most recent of a series of workshops, conferences, and presentations this spring given by the Genocide Education Project in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Florida.
The Genocide Education Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and distributing instructional materials, providing access to teaching resources and organizing educational workshops.
