YEREVAN. – On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, members of the Jewish community and representatives of international organizations in Armenia on Tuesday lit candles and placed flowers to the Holocaust Memorial in capital city Yerevan (PHOTOS).

“There was no war, there was no anti-Semitism, [and] there were no manifestations of Nazism, xenophobia in Armenia. We live in tranquility and peace with the Armenian people in this wonderful country,” Rima Varzhapetyan, leader of the Jewish community in Armenia, told reporters.

The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Director, historian Hayk Demoyan, also had come to pay tribute to the Holocaust victims. In his view, both the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide are among the largest stigmas in the history of mankind.

“Today’s counsel is not solely the pain of the Jewish people in Armenia; this is a universal pain just as the Armenian Genocide, whose 100th anniversary we shall mark this year,” Demoyan specifically noted.