Photos of Armenian Genocide |
Group of Near East Relief orphan girls at summer camp.
Below: Alexandropol: "Hands up",
Polygon orphanage massed drill, October, 1925
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 21
Children waiting in the snow for admission into the 'Orphan City',
a daily spectacle from the early morning until late at night
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 124
A living skeleton
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 262
Outside the door
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Among the ruins
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Cliff where Armenians were hurled to death
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Children of the Near East Relief
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
A blind Armenian mother with her children
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Homeless boy, Erivan
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Clamoring for admittance: Armenian orphans at the Gyumri orphanage gates
Tessa Hofmann & Gerayer Koutcharian
Armenian Review, Spring/Summer, 1992, Vol. 45, No. 1-2/177-178, p. 144, Fig. 81
Before admission to the orphanage
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
"The refugee home, a few feet of earth or stone:
its occupants waiting for death or deliverance as they solely started"
No clothes from A.... yet
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
This group of human wreckage represents tens of thousands when first approached with aid
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 22
Starving, diseased and filthy, these were the children of the Near East who were gathered into the orphanages in the early days of the disaster.
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 85
Refugees in one of the city parks
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
In 1922-1923 Near East Relief evacuated 22.000 children from orphanages in interior Turkey to Syria and Greece
This picture shows part of the 5.000 children from Kharput en route on donkey back and foot.
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 152
Women rescued from Kurdish captors
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
An Armenian mother. The corpses of her five children
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Urfa: Returning to their ruined homes
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919.
Kharput-Turkey, Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Children taken in by Near East Relief
Tessa Hofmann & Gerayer Koutcharian
Armenian Review, Spring/Summer, 1992, Vol. 45, No. 1-2/177-178, p. 119, Fig. 56
Armenian refugee family
"Story of Near East Relief" by James L. Barton, New York, 1930, p. 242
Misfits but welcome
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919. Kharput-Turkey
Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
Daughters of Armenia
Maria Jacobsen, Diary 1907-1919, Kharput-Turkey
Translated into Armenian from the Original Manuscript by
Nerses Pakhdikian, Mihran Simonan, Antelias-Lebanon, 1979
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Virtual Museum |
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International Conference |
On April 20, 21, 2011, AGMI organizes an international conference "Armenian Genocide and Scandinavian response" dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansen.
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Temporary Exhibition |
"ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND SCANDINAVIAN RESPONSE"
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Remember |
Haykazn Mihrdat was born in 1864 in Constantinople (Ottoman Empire), social-political figure, national deputy, president of the “Aharonyan akumb” (Aharonyan club) in Peshiqtash. He was a victim of the Armenian genocide.
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Lemkin scholarship new |
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Events of AGMI |
November 10, 2011On November 9, 2011, the granddaughter of Fridtjof Nansen Marit Greve, with the Norwegian delegation, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex ...
November 10, 2011On November 7, 2011, Asya Darbinyan, a graduate research fellow at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, recently spent four days at the Armenian Research Center conducting research for her dissertation on Near East Relief orphanages ...
November 9, 2011On November 6, 2011, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Head of the Russian Imperial House visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, put flowers at the eternal fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence ...
October 25, 2011On October 25, 2011, the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Libby Dowling Heffern, visited ...
October 13, 2011 On October 13, 2011, Secretary General of Interpol Ronald Noble visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and put flowers at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...
August 31, 2011 On August 30, 2011, the regular meeting of the MFA senior staff and the heads of the diplomatic missions started in the Conference Hall of the K. Demirjian Sports and Concert Complex ...
August 27, 2011 Dr. Hayk Demoyan, director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, has become a new member of the Genocide Education Project’s (GenEd) advisory board ...
July 11, 2011 Fanny Ardant, the world known French actress, who visited Yerevan in the framework of the 8th edition of “Golden Apricot” Yerevan International Film Festival, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial ...
June 30, 2011 Director of AGMI H.Demoyan and Deputy Director of AGMI S.Manukyan had a meeting with ambassador of RA in Russia Oleg Yesayan in Moscow. During the meeting the projects and cooperation ...
June 17, 2011 Minister of French Cooperation Henri de Raincourt visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, within the framework of his official visit to Armenia on June 16-17, and put a wreath at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...
June 17, 2011 The delegation headed by President of Brest Regional Executive Committee in Belarus Konstantin Sumar visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex. Mr. Konstantin Sumar put a wreath at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims ...
June 10, 2011 Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of USA, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, put flowers at the eternal fire ...
June 09, 2011 Dr. Ara Sanjian, the Associate Professor in Armenian and Middle Eastern History from University of Michigan - Dearborn had a meeting in the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute with the staff of AGMI ...
June 01, 2011 The deputy-director of AGMI Suren Manukyan participated on conference dedicated to 150th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansens held in a city of Kharkiv, Ukraine ...
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