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Sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916.
The collection consists of 56 copy photographs depicting the results of the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire. Images are of children and adults in various activities, corpses in ditches, hangings, Armenians as refugees living in tents in the Syrian desert, and piles of skulls and burned bodies.
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced ...
1 Οκτ 2010 · Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915,...
20 Σεπ 2024 · Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide.
Photography, Visual Culture, and the Armenian Genocide; By Peter Balakian; Edited by Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University, Davide Rodogno; Book: Humanitarian Photography; Online publication: 05 February 2015; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107587694.005
From 1915 to 1916 hundreds of thousands of Armenians were deported from their homeland in the eastern Ottoman Empire by the Ottoman authorities, who viewed them as a possible ally of Russia in World War I. Many were murdered or died from disease or starvation; estimates of the number who died range from 600,000 to 1.5 million.
