Prominent Armenians arrested from Constantinople on April 24, 1915.
Archives
National Geographic Cover
United States Embassy in Constantinople, 1915
United States Embassy in Constantinople, 1915
The Evening News Article
The Evening News article about relief society for Armenians
New York Times Article
New York Times article about funds raised by the Armenian Atrocities Committee
The First Deportations
The CUP blamed the Armenians for the CUP’s disastrous attempt to invade Russia in December 1914. The CUP accused Armenians of collaborating with the Russian army. The Ottoman government used the failed invasion as a pretext for a plan to destroy the Ottoman Armenian population.
The first deportations took place in the city of Zeitun on April 8, 1915. Men were marched out of town and executed. Women and children were forced from their homes and loaded into railroad cars bound for the desert. The Zeitun deportations served as a training event for the Ottoman killing squads.
Ambassador Morgenthau’s July 16, 1915 telegram
Ambassador Morgenthau’s July 16, 1915 telegram to the U.S. Department of State referencing deportations of Armenians.
Mehmet Talaat Pasha
Human remains in a burned building
Soldiers (probably Russian) standing over human remains in a burned building. Many Armenians were deported to remote locations and massacred.
Morgenthau’s telegram
Morgenthau’s September 3, 1915 Telegram called into existence the committee that would become Near East Relief.
Defense of Van
The Defense of Van
“Those who fell by the wayside”
‘Those who fell by the wayside’
