On Friday, April 23, Councilmember Paul Krekorian and the Los Angeles City Council honored the memory of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Part of that commemoration included a tribute to Dr. J Michael Hagopian, a 96-year-old survivor of the Genocide.
Born to an Armenian family in Kharpert-Mezreh, Dr. Hagopian has dedicated his life to the visual documentation of the Turkish extermination of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. In all, his work encompasses nearly 400 interviews of survivors and witnesses to the Armenian Genocide and 40 years of research.
Dr. Hagopian, along with a group of Armenian-American community leaders, created the Armenian Film Foundation in 1979 as a non-profit, educational and cultural organization dedicated to the documentation in motion pictures of Armenian heritage and life. As one of its main aims, the Armenian Film Foundation seeks to preserve the visual and personal histories of the witnesses to the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
For more information about the Armenian Film Foundation, please visit www.armenianfilm.org.
