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  • 1. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Overview

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Overview

    Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman ... . The Armenian Genocide The origin of the term genocide and its codification in

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  • 2. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

    The Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of ethnic Armenian Christian people ... 1.2 million died during the genocide. Armenians call these events Medz Yeghern

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  • 3. World War I and the Armenian Genocide

    World War I and the Armenian Genocide

    context of war. The Armenian genocide was closely linked to ... Mass atrocities and genocide are often perpetrated within the

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  • 4. Armenian deportees

    Armenian deportees

    small group of Armenian deportees walking through the Taurus Mountain region, carrying bundles ... against the Armenians. [Courtesy of Sybil Stevens (daughter of Armin T. Wegner). Wegner Collection

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  • 5. The Armenian Genocide

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    genocide. The Ottomans claimed that Armenian revolutionaries had established contact with the enemy and ... I Holocaust Encyclopedia article—The Armenian Genocide: Overview Holocaust Encyclopedia article—The

  • 6. The Armenian Genocide

    April 24, 2015, marks one hundred years since the start of the Armenian genocide, sometimes called ... the first genocide of the twentieth century. Of approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the ... start of the Armenian genocide, sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century. Of

  • 7. Ottoman military forces march Armenians to an execution site

    Ottoman military forces march Armenians to an execution site

    Ottoman military forces march Armenian men from Kharput to an execution site outside the city ... Kharput, Ottoman Empire, March 1915-June 1915. [Courtesy of the Armenian National Institute.]

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  • 8. The Armenian Genocide

    The Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of ethnic Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916.

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  • 9. Armenian refugees

    Armenian refugees

    group of Armenian refugees. 1915-20. Sometimes called the first genocide of the ... twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation

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  • 10. Armenian refugees

    Armenian refugees

    Armenian refugees. Ottoman Empire, 1918-20.

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  • 11. Armenian refugees

    Armenian refugees

    Elder, a divinity student from Pennsylvania, joined the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian ... Relief team that was aiding refugees. For two years, Elder did volunteer work with Armenian orphans

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  • 12. Museum Statement on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

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    WASHINGTON, DC—On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the United States Holocaust ... Special Focus: The Armenian Genocide

  • 13. Deportation of Armenians

    Deportation of Armenians

    Ottoman troops guard Armenians being deported. Ottoman Empire, 1915-16.

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  • 14. An Armenian refugee

    An Armenian refugee

    . Sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical ... An Armenian refugee, wearing a scarf and a pack on her back. Ottoman Empire, 1918-20

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  • 15. Armenian refugee children

    Armenian refugee children

    group of 1,500 Armenian children at a refugee camp of the Near East Relief organization in

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  • 16. An Armenian woman and her child

    An Armenian woman and her child

    An Armenian woman and her child sit on a sidewalk next to a bundle of their possessions. Ottoman

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  • 17. Armenian families in a refugee camp

    Armenian families in a refugee camp

    Armenian families next to makeshift tents in a refugee camp. Ottoman Empire, 1915-16.Photograph ... Wegner traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire and documented atrocities carried out against the Armenians

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  • 18. Armenian refugees in the desert

    Armenian refugees in the desert

    Armenian refugees in the desert. A man in the foreground lies on the ground on a layer of

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  • 19. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth - Photograph

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  • 20. The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Overview - Photograph

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  • 21. Armenian children lie in the street of an unidentified town

    Armenian children lie in the street of an unidentified town

    Armenian children lie in the street of an unidentified town. Photograph taken by Armin T. Wegner ... Ottoman Empire and documented atrocities carried out against the Armenians. [Courtesy of Sybil Stevens

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  • 22. Photographs of Armenian genocide from the Armin T. Wegner collection

    The collection consists of 56 copy photographs depicting the results of the Armenian genocide from ... ditches, hangings, Armenians as refugees living in tents in the Syrian desert, and piles of skulls and

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  • 23. Coining a Word and Championing a Cause: The Story of Raphael Lemkin

    Coining a Word and Championing a Cause: The Story of Raphael Lemkin

    Armenians (which most scholars believe constitute genocide), antisemitic ... Rule in Occupied Europe. In this text, he introduced the word “genocide.” “By ... ‘genocide’ we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to ... (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing)…. Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily

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  • 24. Genocide Timeline

    Genocide Timeline

    Armenians (which most scholars believe constitute genocide), antisemitic ... "genocide." It does not attempt to detail all cases which might be considered as genocides, but rather how

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  • 25. Appendices

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    Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers APPENDIX A Task Force Members ... (1989), and the USSR Award for Personal Courage for her relief efforts in the Armenian earthquake (1990 ... Francis Deng, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Ismaël Diallo

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