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A testimony of the intense emotion aroused by the massacres of Armenians in the late nineteenth century. In Switzerland, a petition had collected nearly a half million signatures to draw the authorities' attention to the 1896 massacres.
From Athena
(1897; French transcription)
  • On the Massacres
Armenian books:
These books constitute stories of the genocide in Andreas, Van-Vaspurakan, and other areas, with one written by a member of the Kurdish Hoyboun party.
Մեծ ոճիրը : Հայկական վերջին կոտորածները եւ Թալէադ փաշա
Վասպուրականի նահանջ բիւրոցը
Աշխարհադաշտ
English books and translations:
The horrors of Aleppo / by Dr. Martin Niepage, a German eyewitness
Martyred Armenia / by Fa’iz El-Ghusein
The murderous tyranny of the Turks / by Arnold J. Toynbee
French books and translations:
Arménie 1915, «Un peuple civilisé massacré par les Turcs» / Heinrich Vierbücher, un officier allemand
Documents sur les massacres d’Adana
Martyrologe arménien
Mémoires de l’ambassadeur Morgenthau - ambassadeur des Etats-Unis à Constantinople
Mémoires d’une déportée arménienne
Rapport secret sur les massacres d’Arménie
Zeïtoun - depuis les origines jusqu’à l’insurrection de 1895
Other primary or secondary sources found at Haybook - Armenian eBooks. Scroll down for several accounts of the diaspora that happened following the Genocide.
(1897-1938; facsimiles)
Includes a letter of resettlement from Persia, a report of investigation of Muslim villages, data on Armenian barbarities in Shemakha uyezd, etc.
(20th century; English)
Includes British relief posters, editorial cartoons, contemporary newspaper reports and other documents related to the Armenian Genocide.
(20th century; English facsimiles)
  • Works on the Armenian Revolutionary Movement
Հայ յեղափոխականի մը յիշատակները - Memories of the Armenian Revolutionary Guard
Առիւծին ժանիքէն (Բանտարկեալի մը յիշատակարանէն) / Ռուբեն Զարդարեան - From the Cataclysmic Memorial
Other primary or secondary sources found at Haybook - Armenian eBooks
(1904-1906; Armenian book facsimiles)
Մօսունի եւ Զօռի արշաւանքները
From Haybook - Armenian eBooks
(1905; Armenian book facsimile)
Documents from state archives, mainly consulate communications.
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(1909-1928; German, English, Turkish, and Danish transcriptions)
Firsthand accounts by Yessayan who “was appointed by the Patriarchate of Constantinople to a delegation sent to Adana to aid orphans and assess and report on conditions in Cilicia after the massacres.”
For photographs on the incident
From the Armenian National Committee of America
(1909; English translations; photographs)
Firsthand accounts of the Armenian Massacre by Father Rigal
From the World History
(1909; English translations)
Vorontsov-Dashkov, governor in the Caucasus, petitions Nicholas Romanov for protection of Turkish-Armenians from Kurdish attacks.
(10 October 1912; English translation)
  • The Armenian Question
Following the 1878 Congress of Berlin, European diplomats tried to establish their level of involvement with Armenians within and beyond the Ottoman Empire and their protection from hostile neighbors.
Armenia and the Armenian Question
The Armenian Question in light of documents
Other primary or secondary sources found at Haybook - Armenian eBooks
(1913-1917; French facsimiles)
Documents from Ottoman controlled Armenia during WWI.
(Facsimiles and English translations; 1914-1918)
From the Armenian National Institute
(1914-1922; English facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes mainly consulate communications and transcriptions from documents such as telegrams regarding the Armenian genocide.
American Documents
British Documents
German Documents
Russian Documents
French Documents
Austrian Documents
Turkish Documents
Also see survivor stories and eyewitness accounts.
(1915-1920; English transcriptions and translations)
”Ambassador Morgenthau describes the forced evacuation of one group of Armenians from their homeland to the Syrian desert.”
EyeWitness to History
(1915; English transcription, photographs)
A firsthand account and memoir of the Armenian Genocide by Grigoris Balakian
(1915-1918; English translation)
  • The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
Statement by Miss Wallis, a foreign resident at Adana, recording her experiences there.
Statement by Miss Frearson, a foreign resident at Aintab, written subsequently to her departure from Turkey.
Series of reports from a foreign resident at Aleppo communicated by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
From Institute for Armenian Studies
(1915-1916; English)
Report of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
(January 25, 1916; English)
Eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide by Faiz El-Ghusein a Turkish official.
(1916; English translation)
  • Photos from Armenian Genocide in Turkish Empire
1915-1916
Photographs of deportees.
1917-1919
(1915-1919; photos, English interface)
(Books, articles, transcript documents, photographs)
(photos; English)
Newspaper of Armenian Refugees in France
(late 1920s-early 1930s; French facsimiles)
Report presented to the International Socialist Congress of Hamburg. After two years of independent existence, Armenia was again divided between the Turks and the Russians, and as the Entente Powers renounced their commitments to the Armenians, the people were abandoned to their fate.
(1923; French facsimile)

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