That action would soon be followed by the mass murder of Armenian men and the deportation by train or forced marches of women and children to the Syrian desert. Ottoman Empire, 1918-20.Ī bit of background: On April 24, 1915, Turkish authorities rounded up and ultimately executed some 200 or more Armenian public and community leaders, including intellectuals, businessmen and artists. administrations once again prioritized military and strategic needs, along with preserving cordial diplomatic relations with Turkey, ahead of calling what occurred to the Armenians by its true name-genocide.Īn Armenian refugee, wearing a scarf and a pack on her back. That disappointment was especially acute when President Obama, who had promised during his first presidential campaign to use the word “genocide,” did not do so. president after another failed to refer to what had occurred as genocide. Armenian Americans, in contrast, were disappointed year after year as one U.S. But with the exception of those misguided individuals and groups still obsessed with Holocaust denial and distortion, survivors did not have to fight to have what they experienced recognized for what it was, namely genocide, the planned effort to eradicate an entire people, even though today they are witnessing an alarming rise in antisemitism around the world.
Holocaust survivors faced innumerable challenges as they tried to move forward with their lives after World War II while also honoring the memory of the family members and friends murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. It is thanks to Professor Hovannisian, for whom the chair in modern Armenian history at UCLA is now named, that the voices of some survivors of the Armenian genocide were recorded and now are part of the collection of oral histories at the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Eventually his father escaped and made his way to the United States. Indeed, his own father, just a boy at the time, was rescued from a death march by an Arab trader who took him as a forced laborer. He speaks often of growing up in the farming community of Turlock surrounded by survivors of the genocide. Richard Hovannisian, as a Presidential Fellow. We have been privileged over the last several years at Chapman University to have one of the foremost historians of Armenia and the Armenian genocide, Dr.
The long delay has been an exceptionally painful experience for Armenian Americans, a great many of whom live in Southern California. president officially referred to the mass murder of Armenians during World War I as “genocide.” To say the statement was long overdue is a huge understatement.
On Saturday, April 24, for the first time, a U.S. Professor of Religious Studies and History Why the Word ‘Genocide’ Matters Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
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