ABSTRACT
The Holocaust was a German event, carried out by Germans in the heart of Europe, in the land of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Many of its victims and survivors were people educated in German universities and familiar with the strong philosophical traditions of Germany and Europe. Therefore Armenian philosophical responses to the Genocide would have to wait longer to emerge than did Jewish philosophical responses to the Holocaust. Given the close similarities and parallels between the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, it is sensible to look at the treatment of the Holocaust within contemporary Jewish philosophy as a model for Armenian philosophers wishing to come to terms with the Aghet. Armenians can learn from Jewish philosophers like Michael Wyschogrod who discuss the problems that people face when a destructive event like genocide becomes a focus of their history and identity.
