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April 27, 2010
Armenian Genocide Survivors Meet with Robert M. Morgenthau
(Far right) Robert M. Morgenthau accepts a plaque as a token of appreciation for his family’s contributions to world events.
On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, four Armenian Genocide survivors, over 97 years young, met with Robert M. Morgenthau to tour “The Morgenthaus: A Legacy of Service” exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park City. The survivors, all residents of the New York Armenian Home for the Aged in Flushing, Queens, were joined by leaders from the Armenian community, including representatives from the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, Armenian General Benevolent Union, Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, and Armenian Council of America. They presented Morgenthau with a plaque as a token of appreciation for his family’s contributions to world events and honored his grandfather, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., the former U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. While serving as ambassador, Henry Morgenthau Sr. was a champion for the Armenians being persecuted by the Young Turk government. Among the artifacts on display in the exhibit is his 1915 telegram where he alerted the U.S. State Department: “it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress.”
Profiling three generations of the Morgenthau family, including Henry Morgenthau, Sr.; his son, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt’s treasury secretary; and his grandson, Robert M. Morgenthau, the former New County district attorney and chairman of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the exhibit includes rare documents and dramatic footage of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the formation of the state of Israel.
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