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    "WITNESSES TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" EXHIBIT AT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM OF AMERICA

    armradio.am
    11.04.2012 11:40

    An exhibit entitled "Witnesses to the Armenian Genocide" has been
    opened at the Armenian Genocide Museum of America. The exhibit brings
    together the surviving photographic record of the Armenian Genocide
    produced by German witnesses. The exhibit is being presented with
    the Armenian Assembly of America and the Armenian National Institute.

    The Witnesses to the Armenian Genocide exhibit is hosted by the
    Lutheran Church of the Reformation. The Lutheran Church of the
    Reformation has been serving the Capitol Hill community since 1869
    and its congregation strongly supports ecumenical activities. It is
    located two blocks east of the Capitol and just behind the Supreme
    Court building. Situated between 2nd and 3rd Streets, the Church also
    sits across from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Library of
    Congress. It can be reached from the Union Station or Capitol South
    metro stops.

    Photographic evidence on the Armenian Genocide is extremely rare.

    Although Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire were military allies
    during World War I, the Ottoman Turkish authorities responsible for
    the Armenian Genocide prohibited taking pictures and closely watched
    anyone suspected of owning a camera. Despite the threat of a court
    martial, several German civilians and other German military officials
    assigned to the Ottoman Empire during the war disregarded the ban
    and secretly photographed the mistreatment of the Armenian population.

    The exhibit is the product of years of research in European archives.

    Many of the photographs in the exhibit were uncovered for the first
    time after decades of neglect. The photographs showing Armenian
    deportees are matched with diary entries, reports, and memoirs of
    the photographers and so doing documenting their authenticity.


    From: Baghdasarian
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