Rediscover the exhibition «The Armenian Genocide of the Ottoman Empire» (2021) alongside Claire Mouradian, curator of the exhibition, and Caroline François, coordinator of the exhibition around the Armenian Genocide.
A precursor to the mass violence and crimes of the 20th century, the genocide of the Armenians continues to be denied.
In the auspicious context of the First World War, the dictatorial and ultra-nationalist government of the Union and Progress Committee, at the head of the Ottoman Empire, implemented the systematic and planned destruction of its Armenian citizens: arrest and execution of notables from the capital and major cities, massacres of adult men and conscripts, deportation of the civilian population to the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia, elimination of the survivors of these death marches in the concentration camps where they had been grouped. From April 1915 to December 1916, between 1,200,000 and 1,500,000 Armenians were murdered.
Banned by the Turkish Republic, the survivors and their descendants now form a global diaspora, mainly in Russia, the United States, the Middle East and France.
The exhibition took place from March 22 to October 21, 2021 at the Drancy Holocaust Memorial
