YEREVAN. -- Presentation of “History of the Holocaust in the USSR” manual was held at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute on Saturday.

This manual will be a contribution to Armenia's education system in terms of telling about the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, co-chairman of the center of the Holocaust, Russian professor Ilya Altman said.

“The book which we published in 2002 and which was the first manual on Holocaust recommended by the Ministry of Education in the post-Soviet area, will be published in the native language here,” he said.

Armenia has accumulated vast experience in teaching the Armenian Genocide. The publication of this book is the first step to exchange the methods, techniques, historical information that links the tragedy of the two nations.

He stressed that Auschwitz was liberated by representatives of different nationalities, and there were definitely Armenians among them.

“I have been already told stories about the rescue of Jews by Armenians. Therefore, today's presentation is a very important event for us,” Altman added.

One of the problems, he added, is to consolidate teachers and researchers from Russia and Armenia, also Jewish and Armenian communities in other countries to not only tell the world about these tragedies, but so that this kind of books could  become red line against any hatred, genocide against any other nation.