Dear visitors,
Due the reconstruction works, as well as preparation of the new exhibitions, Armenian Genocide museum will be closed till April 20, 2014.
Best regards,
The Armenian Genocide Museum – Institute
Heads of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and the Shoah Memorial had a meeting in Paris
05.03.2014
On 4th March a meeting was held between Secretary of the State Commission on the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan and Jacques Fredj Director of the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
During the meeting Demoyan and Fredj discussed the ways of cooperation between the two institutions in fields of joint researches, developing educational programs development and information exchanging.
Visit of the Participants of the First Pan-Armenian Winter Games to the Armenian Genocide Memorial
28.02.2014
Participants of the First Pan-Armenian Winter Games visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial on February 28. 2014. The sportsmen's delegation from different countries laid a wreathes at the memorial of the Armenian Genocide victims. The visitors laid flowers at the eternal fire of the Genocide victims with a minute of silence in remembrance of the innocent victims.
The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili visited Tsitsernakaberd
27.02.2014
The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, who arrived to Yerevan with an official visit, accompanied by the high-ranking officials of RA and Georgia, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.
The Georgian delegation paid a tribute of respect to the victims of the Armenian genocide and put flowers at the memorial of the Armenian genocide.
President of the Hellenic Parliament Evangelos Meimarakis visited Tsitsernakaberd
25.02.2014
A delegation headed President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Evangelos Meimarakis on February 25, 2014 visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex.
Mr. Evangelos Meimarakis laid a wreath at the monument. The members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal Fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
The English edition of “The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916” was published by The Zoryan Institute
20.02.2014
The Zoryan Institute (Toronto), has published the English edition of “The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916”. The book includes hundreds of telegrams, letters and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire to the Foreign Office in Berlin. The documents provide unequivocal evidence of the genocidal intent of the Young Turks and the German government’s official acquiescence complicity. The exceptional importance of these documents is underscored by the fact that only German diplomats and military officials were able to send uncensored reports out of Turkey during World War I.
Hovhannes Tumanyan -145
19.02.2014
19th February, 2014 is the 145th birth anniversary of renowned poet, writer, literary, and national public figure Hovhannes Tumanyan. In the years of Armenian Genocide he couldn’t be indifferent to the fate of his nation.
On 1915 he together with his daughter Nvard moved from Tiflis to Echmiadzin, where the Armenian refugees were sheltered, and most of them where homeless orphans. Here, with the direct supervision and control of H. Tumanyan an orphanage was opened, where about 3000 children were sheltered.
The delegation of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union visited Tsiternakaberd
18.02.2014
The delegation of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union visited Tsiternakaberd Memorial at February 18. The members of the delegation put flowers at the Eternal Fire and honored the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian genocide with a minute of silence. British delegation also visited the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and got acquainted with the British press archives from the collection of AGMI, presenting Armenian massacres.
Verdugo Views: A bottle label leads to research
Article by Katherine Yamada, published in Glendale News Press agency
14.02.2014
While browsing in an antique shop in Oregon last summer, a tiny, glass bottle filled with grains of rice caught my eye. I picked it up and read the label. "The daily ration for 750 children in 1 Near East [Armenian] Relief Orphanage is 40 pounds of rice, less than 7/8 ounce per child. For lack of this small amount, they are turning children away by the thousands. Will you help?"
The label included the names of Samuel C. Lancaster as state chairman and J.J. Handsaker as director and included an address of 606 Stock Exchange Bldg., Portland, Ore. There was no date or any other information.
Intrigued, I purchased the bottle, brought it home and put it on a shelf; promising myself that I would research this artefact one day.
The Story of Henry Morgenthau published in Eastern Armenian
12.02.2014
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute for the first time presents to the Armenian reader the entire memories of U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1913-1916) Henry Morgenthau, in Eastern Armenian edition.
These memoirs have the significant of a unique source for the history of the Armenian Genocide, particularly, to reveal the folds of the crime, which was determined and planned by the Turkish Government, and to identify and explore the mental of the Turkish criminal regime of that time. The memoir of U.S. Ambassador is a monumental work indeed, where the represented facts and testimonies undeniably prove the fact of planned and committed Genocide.
In Memoriam of Aurora Mardiganian: 20th anniversary of the death
07.02.2014
The story of life of Arshalouys (Aurora) Mardiganian, girl from Chmshkatsag, who survived the Genocide, is one of many impressive and thrilling stories, through those the whole story of the Armenian Genocide could be told.
Witnessing the deaths of her family members brutally murdered in front of her eyes, fourteen years Arshalouys was tortured and ravished by German officers, at harems of Turkish officials and Kurdish tribesmen.
Military physician Haroutyoun Khachatryan awarded with “Righteous Among the Nations Award”
06.02.2014
Haroutyoun Khachatryan, being military physician during World War II posthumously awarded with “Righteous Among the Nations Award”, by the Jewish "Yad Vashem" organization. During the event on 4th February Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Armenia Mr. Shmuel Mayrom and Honorary Consul of Israel in Armenia Ashot Shakhmuradyan handed the medal to Haroutyoun Khachatryan’s granddaughter, Armenian singer Anna Khachatryan.
The Guardian published the story of 106 years old Armenian Genocide survivor
25.01.2014
The Guardian refers to the story of 106 years old Armenian Genocide survivor in a special project «First World War: memories of the last survivors» with four other European newspapers.
«The diminutive old woman does not go out in Marseille much any more. She hunches over a cane and is spoilt, mollycoddled by her daughter and grandchildren. Ask her about her childhood, and she becomes perfectly alert. Ovsanna Kaloustian is 106 years old, and one of the last survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. As a memory bearer, she is perfectly aware of the role she has to play almost a century later. "God let me live this long so that I could tell the story," she says».
The Book of Whispers” by Varujan Voskanian
21.01.2014
The novel “The Book of Whispers” by Romanian writer of Armenian origin Varujan Voskanian was published in 2009, in Bucharest and became one of the highest scored and awarded of the publishing year.
“The Book of Whispers” narrates about The Armenian Genocide and the horrors of 20th century. This shocking work received high evaluations from the international media and literary circles for presenting with almost documentary accuracy the horrors of Genocide and stories of Armenian resettlers, trying to survive in foreign lands.
“The Armenian Genocide. The Mechanisms of Decision-making and Implementation” by Arsen Avakyan was published by Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
09.01.2014
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has published the work of Doctor of Historical Science Arsen Avakyan “The Armenian Genocide, The Mechanisms of Decision-making and Implementation”. The book reveals the mechanisms of decision-making and their implementation during World War I and the years after war , based on archives and primary sources.
The book analyzes deeply the inner structure of The Committee of Union and Progress, which made the decision of Armenians extermination, the intergroup configuration of power in the central body of this party, and the structure and creation process of "Special Organization". It also covers the responsibility of Young Turks and the Parliament in destruction the Christian population all over the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The Status of the Armenian Deportees Settled In Syria as a Result of the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian - Arab Relations (1915-1924), by Narine Margaryan
21.12.2013
The book of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute scholar Narine Margaryan, PHD was published. The book titled “The Status of the Armenian Deportees Settled In Syria as a Result of the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian - Arab Relations (1915-1924)”.
The book sheds light on the problems of the Armenians settled in Syria after the Armenian Genocide. It researches the attitude of the Syrian Arabs to the Armenians. At the same time it focused also on the treatment of the Arab governors and chieftains to the Armenians, then the policy under Emir Feisal rule (1918-1920), and in the first years of the French mandate (1920-1924). It discusses the development of the relations between the Arabs and the Armenians during those years.
The South African Responses to the Armenian Genocide
Dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandela
11.12.2013
As a result of the collecting works of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, a rare document was found, which witnesses a humanitarian assistance of a South African tribe to the Armenian orphans in 1921.
One of the reverends of the Independent church of South Africa, from the name of his community of 250 people, made a contribution to Armenians, who were victims of the Turkish barbarity, in the case when they were also in poor conditions.
This is a unique testimony of the protection of human rights and humanism, which recognizes no racial and geographic restrictions or boundaries.
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