Adam Schiff submits additional story to be included in Congressional Record

September 29, 2010 - 21:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) submitted an additional story to be included in the Congressional Record – one of many submissions into the national record as part of Rep. Schiff’s Armenian Genocide Congressional Record Project.

“The survival story of Aram Demerjian's father that was submitted today builds upon previous stories that have been submitted into the Congressional Record to help document and preserve the accounts of Armenians who survived the Armenian Genocide,” Rep. Schiff said. “This submission contributes to the effort to raise awareness about the issue, and educate Members of Congress and Americans across the nation now and in the future on the necessity of recognizing the Genocide. Together, we will press forward on a path to finally recognize the atrocious acts carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, honoring the memory of a million and a half innocent men, women and children”

The Armenian Genocide Congressional Record Project, pioneered by Rep. Schiff, is part of an ongoing effort to parallel H. Res. 252, the Congressional resolution he sponsored to recognize and commemorate the Genocide. Rep. Schiff continues to encourage survivors of the Genocide and their families from throughout the country to participate in the project by sending in the stories of what happened to their family during the Genocide, Schiff's spokesperson Maureen Shanahan told PanARMENIAN.Net