Purdue Professor Emeritus Robert Melson explores perpetrators’ means and motives, as well as survivors’ courage and survival during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, focusing on the stories of Armenian Bishop Grigoris Balakian and the Jewish Mendelsohn family.  This annual genocide commemoration is presented in cooperation with the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, and the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.