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Facing History - Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians
This series of eight lessons is organized as a mini-unit for teaching the Armenian Genocide. They were designed to complement Facing History and Ourselves' resource books, Holocaust and Human Behavior and Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians. Most of these lessons are designed to be used with the film The Armenian Genocide (Two Cats Productions), which aired on PBS on April 17, 2006 and is available to borrow from their library or stream if you are in their educator network.The Armenian Genocide
Armenian people are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Ottoman soldiers. Kharpert, Ottoman Empire, April 1915.
Denial
Turkey Execution of 2 million Armenian victims in 1915
Human Rights
An Armenian refugee camp in the Caucasus, 1920
International Response
Thousands march in Los Angeles to commemorate the Armenian Genocide April 24, 2018
Propaganda
Map of Armenian Genocide
Resistance
Armenians with the flag they used to signal for help after their resistance on Musa Dagh, Turkey during the Armenian Genocide. Photograph probably taken after their arrival at Port Said, Egypt, September 1915.
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