Exhibition the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

The exhibition on The Armenian Genocide of the Ottoman Empire is extended
until October 21, 2021  

The Shoah Memorial wished to commemorate the 106 anniversary of the Armenian genocide, precursor of the violence and mass crimes of the 20th century, but which continues to be the subject of denial.

In the propitious context of the First World War, the dictatorial and ultra-nationalist regime of the Union and Progress Committee at the head of the Ottoman Empire implemented the systematic and planned destruction of its Armenian citizens: arrest and execution of notables of the capital and major cities, massacre of adult men and conscripts, deportation of the entire civilian population to the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia, elimination of survivors of these death marches in concentration camps. From April 1915 to December 1916, about 1,200,000 Armenians were murdered.

Banned from return by the Turkish Republic led by Mustafa Kemal, the survivors and their descendants now form a global diaspora, mainly in Russia, the United States, the Middle East and France.

Commission: Claire Mouradian, emeritus research director, CNRS; Raymond Kévorkian, emeritus research director, French Institute of Geopolitics, University Paris 8, and Yves Ternon, historian, president of the International Scientific Council for the study of the Armenian genocide.

General coordination: Caroline François, in charge of traveling exhibitions at the Shoah Memorial.

Graphic design: ÉricandMarie.

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