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Caption:
"Abandoned and
murdered small
children of the
(Armenian)
deportees, "according
to the
photographer,
1915-1916. Three
are dead
including
stripped boy in
gutter. Location:
Ottoman empire,
region Syria. |
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Caption:
1915, Armenian deportees
living in the open
desert with bedding as
their only shelter.
Tents are in view in
background. Person on
the right is a woman, a
child is in the center,
and an older boy is
sitting on the left.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria. |
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Caption:
1915-1916, corpse of young
Armenian adult male killed
and stripped naked lying
along a dirt road. Injuries
to the head and lower chest
are visible. Location:
Ottoman empire, region Syria. |
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Caption:
1915, deported Armenian
family-two older couples
and two young
children-living under a
tent in the desert.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria. |
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Caption:
1915-1916, skulls, in
various stages of
decomposition, of
Armenian deportees, some
of whom may have been
burned to death.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria. |
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Caption:
Scattered deportees in a desert wasteland, individually foraging as their only source of food. There is no shelter, water, or habitation in sight.
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Caption:
1915-1916, corpse of
young Armenian boy
starved to death,
collapsed at doorstep.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria.
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Caption: 1915,
orphaned Armenian
children in the open,
all in worn-out clothing,
with many covering their
heads from the desert
sun. Twenty-eight boys
in the foreground. Some
adults are visible in
the background.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria.
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Caption:
Armenians hanged in the
street in Constantinople
before the deportation
of the Armenians to the
desert had begun. People
are looking on, some
frightened, others as if
it were a performance.
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Caption:
1915, Armenian deportees
sleeping in the street
-- mostly women who
appear to be without
families.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria. |
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Caption: "A
15-year-old child who
died of starvation,"
according to
photographer, 1915-1916.
Two boys with bare and
bandaged feet starved to
death in open desert.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria.
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Caption:
Fleeing from
death. An
Armenian mother
on the heights
of the Taurus
Mountains. Her
husband has been
killed or
slaughtered,
thrown into
prison or driven
to forced labour.
On her back she
carries all that
she owns, i.e.
what she could
take with her, a
blanket for
sleeping or to
use as a tent to
protect against
the sun, some
wooden sticks,
and then, on top
of everything,
her baby. How
much longer can
she carry this
weight? The
Government would
bring them by
rail to the foot
of the Taurus
Mountains. In
1915 trains
could no go
further as the
tunnel had not
yet built. From
there, the
refugees
continued by
foot. (Caption
from Armin T.
Wegner and the
Armenians in
Anatolia, 1915:
Images and
Testimonies,
Guerini e
Associati, 1996,
p. 96.) |
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Caption:
1915-1916, two orphaned
Armenian boys in bare
feet and outgrown, torn
clothing.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria.
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Caption:
1915, Armenian deportees
in a camp of makeshift
tents inhabited mostly
by women and children in
barren desert.
Location: Ottoman
empire, region Syria. |
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A starved mother with
her two starved children |
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"This group of human
wreckage represents tens
of thousands when first
approached with aid" |
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Photographed by a
German Officer in
Turkey. Source:
Nazer.
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Turkish hangmen and
their victims in Aleppo,
1915.Source:
Nazer.
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Genocide Photo. Source:
Nazer.
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Genocide Photo. Source:
Nazer.
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Genocide Photo.
Source:
Nazer.
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Genocide Photo.
Source:
Nazer.
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Armenians from
Kesaria in front
of jail, one
hour later all
were killed.
Source:
Nazer.
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6,000 Orphans
form star for "Near
East Relief" aid
organization
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Orphans, 2nd
from right is my
father, Turks
first killed his
father, few days
later Turks let
them walk with
his mother and
her sister from
Arapgir till Der
Zor desert in
Syria. He and
his sister are
saved by "Near
East Relief" aid
organization,
few days later
they lost their
mom in Der Zor
desert.
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A common sight
among the
Armenian
refugees in
Syria.
An Armenian
child dead in
the fields
within sight of
help
and safety at
Aleppo.
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I should like to see any power in
this world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people
whose history is ended, whose wars have been fought and lost, whose
structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is
unheard, and whose prayers are no more answered.
Go ahead, destroy this race!
Destroy Armenia! See if you can do it.
Send them from their homes into
the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes
and churches.
Then, see if they will not
laugh again, see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two
of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a
New Armenia.
-William Saroyan
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