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The Armenian Genocide — 95 Years Later, In Remembrance; Armenian Genocide in Art; Armenian Genocide in Contemporary Graphic and Art Posters Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine; Armenian Genocide Photo Collections; Art, Memory, and the Armenian Genocide, by Stephen Feinstein Archived 2010-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
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 Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Each pair of swords shows an area of Armenian resistance: greater resistance (red swords) or lesser resistance (black swords). The different size of swords is to save space into the map, it means nothing. Dots in Black Sea representing Armenians (mainly women and children) drowned into the sea (see Armenian Genocide for references).
Map of Salvation is a feature-length docudrama film made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.. The film tells about five European women, Maria Jacobsen (), Karen Jeppe (Denmark), Bodil Biørn (), Alma Johansson (), Anna Hedvig Büll (), who were witnesses to the Armenian Genocide and subsequently founded shelters for Armenian children and women.
In the mid-2000s, attorneys won a pair of legal settlements for $37.5 million in the names of Armenian genocide victims. But families who stepped forward to collect on behalf of ancestors in one ...
On 24 April 1965, for the first time for any such demonstration in the entire Soviet Union, [3] 100,000 [4] [5] protesters held a 24-hour demonstration in front of the Opera House on the 50th anniversary of the commencement of the Armenian genocide, and demanded that the Soviet Union government officially recognize the Armenian genocide ...
Estimates of the number of Armenians who perished vary widely, with historians offering a range of about 700,000 to 1.2 million.
There have also been numerous studies and books published about the press coverage of the Genocide including: "El Genocidio armenio en la prensa del Uruguay, año 1915" (The Uruguayan Press of 1915 on the Genocide of Armenians) by Daniel Karamanoukian, "Le Genocide Armenien dans la presse Canadian" (The Armenian Genocide in the Canadian Press ...