International Affirmation of the Armenian Genocide Public Petitions Statement by 126 Holocaust Scholars, Holders of Academic Chairs, and Directors of Holocaust Research and Studies Centers March 7, 2000 View image of the petition appeared in New York Times, June 9, 2000. 126 Holocaust Scholars Affirm the Incontestable Fact of the Armenian Genocide and Urge Western Democracies to Officially Recognize it.
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 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. Richard Libowitz
Temple University | Prof. Israel Charny, Director
Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem
Professor at the Hebrew University,
Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Genocide | Dr. Marcia Littell
Stockton College
Exec. Director, Scholars' Conference
On the Holocaust and the Churches | Prof. Ward Churchill
Ethnic Studies
The University of Colorado, Boulder | Franklin Littell
Emeritus Professor
Temple University | Prof. Stephen Feinstein, Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota | Prof. Hubert G. Locke
Washington University
Co-founder of the Annual Scholar's Conference
On the Holocaust and the Churches | Prof. Saul Friedman, Director
Holocaust and Jewish Studies
Youngston State University, Ohio | Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell
Executive Director of the International Scholarly
Conference on the Holocaust, London, England | Prof. Edward Gaffney
Valparaiso University Law Schoo | Prof. Erik Markusen
Southwest State University, MN | Prof. Zev Garber
Los Angeles Valley College | Prof. Saul Mendlowitz
Dag Hammerskjold Distinguished Professor
of International Law
Rutgers University | Prof. Dorota Glowacka
University of King's Collage
Halifax, Nova Scotia | Prof. Jack Needle, Director
Center for Holocaust Studies
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ | Dr. Irving Greenberg, President
Jewish Life Network | Dr. Philip Rosen, Director
Holocaust Education Center of the Delaware Valley | Prof. Herbert Hirsch
Virginia Commonwealth University | Prof. Alan S, Rosenbaum
Dept. of Philosophy
Cleveland State University | Prof. Irving L. Horowitz
Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University, NJ | William L. Shulman, President
Association of Holocaust Organizations City University of New York | Rabbi Dr. Steve Jacobs
Temple Sinai Shalom
Huntsville, Alabama
Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Genocide | Prof. Samuel Totten
The University of Arkansas
Assoc. Editor of The Encyclopedia of Genocide | Prof. Steven Katz
Distinguish Professor
Director, Center for Judaic Studies
Boston University | 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
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