Armenian Genocide Overview | Key Topics, History, and Educational Resources

Inside The Armenian Genocide

This section provides direct access to core topics related to the Armenian Genocide. Each tile links to a dedicated page covering a specific aspect of the Genocide, including its political origins, mass deportations, death marches, the role of Armenian women, the destruction of historic Armenia, and international responses.

Historic photograph of senior leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), including Talaat, Enver, and Djemal Pasha—key figures who orchestrated the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

The Rise of the Young Turks

A grieving Armenian mother on her knees beside her dead child, with another child standing helplessly nearby, during the Armenian Genocide in Deir ez-Zor—illustrating the tragedy denial seeks to erase.

Armenian Genocide Denial

Armenian Diaspora

Historic photographs showing the public execution of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in the Ottoman Empire following the mass arrests of April 24, 1915—the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

The Beginning: Arrests and Deportations (April 24, 1915)

Photograph of deported Armenian children during the 1915 Genocide, wearing tattered clothing and showing signs of starvation and exhaustion while marching through Ottoman territories toward death camps like Deir ez-Zor.

Death Marches and Genocide

Group of Armenian nurses in 1921 at the Annie Riggs Memorial Hospital in Mezireh, near Kharpert—survivors and caregivers following the Armenian Genocide, aiding displaced and traumatized communities.

The Role of Armenian Women

Photograph showing the bodies of massacred Armenian Genocide victims lying in a field—evidence of the systematic extermination carried out during the Final Solution and the emptying of Historic Armenia.

The Emptying of Historic Armenia