Norwich — The Sikh Community of Connecticut, along with Norwich and state officials, will unveil a permanent memorial Saturday to the victims of the 1984 massacre of Sikh worshippers at the Amritsar, Punjab Golden Temple.

The ceremony to unveil the “1984 Genocide Memorial” will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Otis Library, 261 Main St., and is open to the public.

Saturday is the 35th anniversary of the attack by the Indian Army on the Sikhs’ holiest place of worship, “Harminder Sahib,” the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab. The attack killed more than 10,000 worshippers.

State and city officials also will declare June 1 as “Sikh Memorial Day” to honor those who gave their lives defending the temple and the worshippers killed in both the June 1984 attack and a November 1984 attack.

Swaranjit Singh Khalsa of Norwich, president of Sikh Sewak Society International USA, said in a statement: “Our motive is to bring in light the right narrative which has been suppressed for many, many years and also to educate fellow Americans on what happened to Sikhs in 1984 and why Sikhs decided to choose America as their home.”

Khalsa said the Sikh Genocide Memorial will help make the Sikh community feel safer living here.

It also will show that Connecticut officials understand the pain of the Sikh nation and stand in solidarity with the Sikh community, Khalsa said in the statement.