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Event commemorating Swiss humanist Jacob Kunzler to be held in Yerevan
21.04.2008 15:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event dedicated to Swiss humanist Jacob Kunzler, representative of German Eastern Mission and doctor at local Swiss Mission Hospital in Western Armenia, will he held in Armenian Genocide Museum Institute on April 22.
“A handful of soil from Kunzler’s grave will be buried under the Wall of Memory in Tsitsernakaberd. Catholicos of Al Armenians Garegin II and Kunzler’s heirs will attend the event,” Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Director Hayk Demoyan told a news conference today.
On January 1, 1922, Dr Kunzler with assistance of American Near East Relief Organization conveyed 8000 Armenian orphans from Turkey to Syria and Lebanon. The same year he founded an asylum for 1400 Armenian girls in Syria and then a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
Jacob Kunzler died in 1949 and was buried at the Protestant Cemetery in Beirut.