“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
— Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939
We do.
Exhibit A: The Genocide Digital is a powerful multimedia experience curated by the Armenian Genocide Museum of Canada
This digital archive features rare and never-before-seen video footage documenting the Armenian Genocide — gathered from global archives, private collections, and international media sources. Many of these clips have never been publicly shown, now brought together in one unified exhibit to preserve memory, expose truth, and confront denial.
Each video represents a haunting piece of history, giving voice to the silenced and vision to the unseen.
Extremely Rare Footage: Armenian Priest Meets American Military Delegation, Constantinople, 1919
This extraordinary and seldom-seen footage captures an Armenian priest meeting with an American military mission in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) in 1919, during the near aftermath of the Armenian Genocide. As the global community began to scrutinize the Ottoman Empire’s atrocities, Turkish officials often orchestrated carefully managed encounters like this — pressuring Armenian leaders to maintain appearances of normalcy.
Such meetings were frequently staged to mislead foreign observers, masking the horrific reality faced by the surviving Armenian population. This clip stands as a haunting reminder of the propaganda tactics used to deny ongoing suffering — and the resilience of those who bore witness.
Death March to Deir ez-Zor: Footage of Armenian Deportees (1915)
This haunting footage captures a convoy of Armenians being deported by Ottoman forces during the Armenian Genocide. Filmed in 1915, the video shows civilians—many of them women and children—marching toward the Syrian desert and concentration camps such as those in Deir ez-Zor. Scenes like these reflect the calculated death marches designed to erase the Armenian population from its ancestral homeland.
The Baghdad Railway: Deportations to Death Camps
The Baghdad Railway, originally built to link Europe to the Middle East, became a critical route used to deport hundreds of thousands of Armenians into the Syrian desert. Many deportees were transported to death camps such as Deir ez-Zor, where they faced starvation, mass killings, and extermination.
The video also shows a young Armenian boy beside the body of his dead mother, one of countless victims abandoned along the deportation routes.
Historical accounts and survivor testimonies, including those cited in the documentary Aghet 1915, describe how the railway lines became scenes of horror, with the bodies of Armenian women found mutilated, wooden clubs forcibly inserted into their anuses as acts of brutal violence.