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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STUDIES - VOLUME 5, NO. 1, 2020

5 Mar 2021

In 2020 the city of České Budějovice published Hansa’s manuscript dealing with his visit to France in late 1920s.8 The Theresienstadt Centre for Genocide Studies plans to start awarding the Karel Hansa Prize in 2021 on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide.9 The aim of this article is to connect with and improv. [...] Unlike the states of the Entente, where the story of the Genocide of the Armenian nation was an indisputable part of the war expe- rience, mediated by the daily press and amplified by the long-term missionary relationship in the region and the interests of war propaganda,58 the Habsburg Empire manifested the opposite dynamics. [...] In relation to the Ar- menian tragedy, the West in Hansa’s interpretation ceased to be the personification of the positive values of progress and civilisation; on the contrary, the West betrayed these abstract values with its indifference towards the suffering Armenians.72 He saw the survivors of the genocides as “victims of the reign of Young Turks, and the intrigues and weakness of Eu- ropean di. [...] The book Horrors of the East dedicates considerable space to the history of the Congregation, and Hansa’s correspondence with the Mekhitarists shows that some of the photographs and illustrations in the books are from the Congregation.89 Hansa also participated in the conference of the International Near East Association in Geneva at which he presented his photographs from Lebanon and Syria.90 Fig. [...] The rest of the money in the fund for the victims of the Armenian Genocide ended up in the hands of the Nazis, as a result of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German army in 1939.
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