FRANCE Shoah Memorial: In preview photos of the exhibition on the genocide of Armenians in 1915

The genocide of Armenians in 1915 stigmatize, exclude, destroy From Friday, April 3, 2015 on Wednesday, September 30, 2015

During World War II, the Committee of Union and Progress, the party-state in exclusive nationalism governing the Ottoman Empire, has implemented the systematic destruction of its Armenian and Syriac subjects, breaking the multiethnic imperial tradition.

The context of war was the necessary condition, suitable to these planned mass violence that were carried out in two stages: massacres of adult men and conscripts from April to October 1915, and deportation of women and children; phasing out of the deportees to concentration camps in the Syrian desert and Mesopotamia. Banned from returning by the Kemalist republic, the survivors and their descendants now form a global diaspora.

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Memorial of the Shoah has decided to dedicate an exhibition to these events that foreshadow the mass murders that occurred during the twentieth century, while also highlighting the denial of which it continues to be.

Claire Mouradian, Director of Research, CNRS, Raymond Kevorkian, Emeritus Research Director, French Institute of Geopolitics, University Paris 8, and Yves Ternon, PhD in history at the University Paris 4.

Coordination

Caroline Francis, assisted by Marlene Ayala, the Holocaust Memorial

Research and Documentation

Lior Lalieu-Smadja, Ariel Sion, Karen Taieb and the documentation center of the Shoah Memorial

The exhibition is supported by the Memory, Heritage and Archives (DMPA) of the Ministry of Defence, the Defence Historical Service, the Foreign Legion Museum, the National Office for Veterans and War Victims (ONACVG), the Union of committed volunteers, veterans Jews 1939-1945, their children and friends (UEVACJ-EA), and the National Archives.