23 April 2003
During the ceremony to remember the Armenian Genocide, the headstone of Fridtjof Nansen, a Righteous for the Armenian people, was positioned in the Wall of Remembrance in the Genocide Museum at Dzidzernagapert in Yerevan.
At the end of the ceremony a tree was planted to commemorate Nansen in the Gardens of the Righteous near the Museum.
Yerevan
A tree for Nansen
30 April 2003
In Yerevan
The Armenian Righteous at the Hill of the Swallows
In Armenia, Yerevan, the Wall of Remembrance and the Garden nearby commemorated the Armenian Righteous at the Mausoleum of Dzidzernagapert (the Hill of the Swallows), dedicated to the victims of the 1915 genocide.
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