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Cultural Department of the Padua City Council Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide There is Always an Option to say 'Yes' or 'No'. Testimony of the Righteous in the World Seminar November 29 2001 Morning, 10am University of Padua, Aula Magna Opening Remarks: • the Padua Authorities • Giuseppe Zaccaria, the Pro-rector of Padua University • Gabriele Nissim, President of the Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide [—› abstract] Presentations: • Antonia Arslan (Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide) - The publication of the proceedings of the international conference "There is Always an Option to say 'Yes' or 'No'. The Righteous against the Genocides of the Armenians and the Jews" • Boghos Levon Zekiyan (University of Venice) and Pietro Kuciukian (International Committee of the Righteous for the Armenians - Memory is the Future) - The figure and work of the Turkish publisher Ayse Nur Zarakolu, Istanbul • Svetlana Broz (Committee for the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide, Sarajevo) - The figure and work of general Jovan Divjak, Sarajevo Awards: • Ayse Nur Zarakolu will receive the «Padova per i Giusti» award, assigned by the Padua City Council, and the Comitato Internazionale dei Giusti per gli Armeni award assigned by Ardavast Serapian, President of the Fondazione Stefano Serapian [—› rationale] • Jovan Divjak will receive the «Padova per i Giusti» award assigned by the Padua City Council [—› rationale] Testimony: • Ayse Nur Zarakolu [—› biographical notes] [—› speech] • Jovan Divjak [—› biographical notes] [—› speech] [Afternoon, 3pm] University of Padua, Aula Nievo Lectures: • Gabriele Nissim, historian, Milan - The reason for our search for the Righteous in all genocides • Stefano Levi della Torre (essayist, member of the Executive Council of the Jewish Community in Milan) - The Righteous in the Jewish tradition • Julia Dobrovolskaja (University of Venice and Catholic University of Milan) - Lev Razgon and his memories of seventeen years in the GULags • Sergio Rapetti (translator and publishing consultant) - Good and Evil in Varlam Shalamov [Discussion]	• Metz Yeghèrn • Shoah • GULag • Desaparecidos • Ethnic Cleansing • Yerevan —› Support "Memory is the Future" • Sofia —› Support the Peshev Memorial • Sarajevo —› Support a "Garden of the Righteous" in Sarajevo
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