22.04.2023


On April 19th, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute presented eight new books and two journal editions.

Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan noted that the works all focus on the Armenian Genocide and instrumentalize unique sources in furnishing their work: most notably, the memoirs of survivors, survivor testimonies and studies on the policy of Turkification of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide. Marutyan further added: “The second issue of the 2022 English-language scientific periodical of the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, published by the AGMI, is entirely dedicated to different aspects of Artsakh issue and the genocidal policy implemented by Azerbaijan towards Armenians. This publication is important precisely because it represents a way to render the crisis in Artsakh accessible to the general public beyond Armenia in an accessible language.”

Edita Gzoyan, the Deputy Scientific Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, noted that these publications represent a collective summary of the hard work of museum's researchers undertaken during 2022.

Of special note: several descendants of the authors of the memoirs published by the AGMI attended the presentation. They shared stories and spoke of the trials that their elders faced in the midst of the Armenian Genocide.

The books presented at the event are:

• Serob-Srap Mkhitaryan, “The Story of Our Village”, editor, author of foreword and notes Kristine Najarian, Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors 5 (Yerevan: AGMI, 2021)

• Artashes Khachatryan, “Memories”, editor, author of foreword and annotations: Robert Tatoyan,

• Levon Ashpahyan, “About My Life”, editor, author of foreword and notes Narine Hakobyan, Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors 6 (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

• Aram Mantashyan, “Aram Could Not Be Seito”, editor, author of foreword and notes Regina Galustyan,

• “Sokrat Mkrtchyan”, Memoirs, editor, author of foreword and notes Robert Tatoyan, trans. by Ara Stepan Melkonian, Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors 7 (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

• Garnik K. Potourian, “Deportee Memoir 1915-1917”, editor, author of the foreword and notes Mihran A. Minasian, Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors 8 (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

• Mikael Bartikyan, “Bloody Izmir” and Ohanes (Onnik) Ghazeryan, “Biographical Notes”, editor, author of forewords and notes Tehmine Martoyan, Memoirs of Armenian Genocide Survivors 9 (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

• “The Aleppo Rescue Home: 1464 Accounts of Armenian Genocide Survivors”, editor, author of foreword and notes Edita Gzoyan (Yerevan: AGMI, 2021)

• Zabel Yesayan “Murad’s Journey: From Sivas to Batum”, transl. by Ara Stepan Melkonian, (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

• Edita Gzoyan, Regina Galustyan, Shushan Khachatryan, Elina Mirzoyan, “Turkification of Armenian Children during the Armenian Genocide”, introduction by Narine Margaryan, (Yerevan: AGMI, 2022)

The journal publications presented at the event are:

• The first and second issues of Ts’eghaspanagitakan handes [Journal for Genocide Studies] in 2022;

• The Autumn 2023 issue of the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, which is a special issue dedicated to different aspects of Artsakh issue.