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The Armenian Genocide: February 11 – May 5, 2002

Holocaust Education Center, the Armenian Museum in Watertown, MA, and the Armenian community in Springfield co-sponsored an exhibit and a series of programs about the mass murder of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey from 1915 to 1923.

During World War I more than one million Armenian people were effectively eliminated from their homeland that they had occupied for nearly 3000 years.   However, the genocide ended up backfiring on the Turks.  After ridding the country of almost all Armenians, the country’s economy was destroyed. 

Often called “The Forgotten Genocide”, it has officially been denied by successive Turkish governments and has not yet received recognition in many countries including the United States.
 
The exhibit examined the ways in which this first genocide of the 20th century still reverberates through the lives of survivors and their descendants.

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