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This spring, Armenians in Minnesota and around the world solemnly recall the crime against humanity known as the Armenian Genocide, Sun Current reports.

Beginning on April 24, 1915, more than 1.5 million Armenians – 75 percent of the entire population of Armenians in the world at that time – were massacred by the Ottoman Turks in a state-sponsored policy of extermination.

Despite copious documentation, scholarly consensus and international recognition, the Armenian Genocide is still actively denied by the present-day Republic of Turkey.

Minnesotans took part in national efforts to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Some found safe haven in Minnesota, where their descendants continue to play a vital, productive role in community life.

One of the free public events in the Twin Cities that will honor ‘Remember the Armenians’ is in Edina. “Days of Remembrance: From the Armenians to the Holocaust,” is scheduled for 1-3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19, at Edina City Hall.

The event will feature lectures by World Without Genocide Executive Director Ellen Kennedy and Holocaust survivor Dora Zaidenweber, followed by a play, “Upstanders: Saving Armenians and Jews.”