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PHOTO SHOWING SCENE OF DEPORTATION OF ERZURUM ARMENIANS PUBLISHED
17:06, 9 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. The photo, which has been recently
published, depicts an episode of deportation of Erzurum Armenians
to Mesopotamia, near the village of Sushehir. The photo is made by
the Austrian biologist Victor Pitchman (1881-1956). By the order of
German Government, from 1914 until the end of the First World War,
Pitchman had organized Turkish mountain-shooter military units, at the
same time mapping the ongoing military operations in the Middle East
for the German General Staff. Traveling and carrying out collecting
works in the territory of Western Armenia he managed to take photos
of Armenians' deportation scene.
As reports "Armenpress", it is remarkable, that in the photos made by
V. Pitchman no men are seen in the deportation caravans, only women
and children. The majority of Armenian men were already killed.
The deportation of Armenian population of Erzurum started in July
1915. Historical sources and evidences of survivors prove the cruel
fate of Erzurum Armenians. 35-40 thousand Armenians were deported from
Erzurum and surrounding villages to Derjan, Erzincan, Sebastia (Sivas),
even to Der Zor desert. Very few of the deportees could survive.
Moreover, Armenians were slaughtered on the road of deportation;
men were shot to death, or killed by axe in groups; women were raped
and killed or died on the road from various diseases, thirst and
starvation; lonely and helpless children and weak were inevitably
condemned to death.
"They killed the women, children, and elderly people by burning them
to death, shearing, strangling the rivers, group shooting and rolling
them from the rocks to deep rifts. Starving and frosted people were
condemned to death through brutal torture.
Thousands of deported Armenians were dying on the way and epidemics
in deportation camps. The population of Erzurum and Bassen valleys -
women, children and elder people - were deported from their villages
and forced to reach Mesopotamia".
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter German Vice Consul in Erzurum in 1915
The source of photograph, Nature History Museum, Vienna, Austria
>From "100 Photographic Stories of the Armenian Genocide" book
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793359/photo-showing-scene-of-deportation-of-erzurum-armenians-published.html
17:06, 9 February, 2015
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. The photo, which has been recently
published, depicts an episode of deportation of Erzurum Armenians
to Mesopotamia, near the village of Sushehir. The photo is made by
the Austrian biologist Victor Pitchman (1881-1956). By the order of
German Government, from 1914 until the end of the First World War,
Pitchman had organized Turkish mountain-shooter military units, at the
same time mapping the ongoing military operations in the Middle East
for the German General Staff. Traveling and carrying out collecting
works in the territory of Western Armenia he managed to take photos
of Armenians' deportation scene.
As reports "Armenpress", it is remarkable, that in the photos made by
V. Pitchman no men are seen in the deportation caravans, only women
and children. The majority of Armenian men were already killed.
The deportation of Armenian population of Erzurum started in July
1915. Historical sources and evidences of survivors prove the cruel
fate of Erzurum Armenians. 35-40 thousand Armenians were deported from
Erzurum and surrounding villages to Derjan, Erzincan, Sebastia (Sivas),
even to Der Zor desert. Very few of the deportees could survive.
Moreover, Armenians were slaughtered on the road of deportation;
men were shot to death, or killed by axe in groups; women were raped
and killed or died on the road from various diseases, thirst and
starvation; lonely and helpless children and weak were inevitably
condemned to death.
"They killed the women, children, and elderly people by burning them
to death, shearing, strangling the rivers, group shooting and rolling
them from the rocks to deep rifts. Starving and frosted people were
condemned to death through brutal torture.
Thousands of deported Armenians were dying on the way and epidemics
in deportation camps. The population of Erzurum and Bassen valleys -
women, children and elder people - were deported from their villages
and forced to reach Mesopotamia".
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter German Vice Consul in Erzurum in 1915
The source of photograph, Nature History Museum, Vienna, Austria
>From "100 Photographic Stories of the Armenian Genocide" book
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/793359/photo-showing-scene-of-deportation-of-erzurum-armenians-published.html