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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people—half the Armenian population—were killed. ISBN: 0618982663

The Armenian Genocide

Armenian people are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Ottoman soldiers. Kharpert, Ottoman Empire, April 1915

Armenian people are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Ottoman soldiers. Kharpert, Ottoman Empire, April 1915.

Survival

The Armenian Genocide Memorial on a hillside just west of Yerevan, Armenia, commemorates the one and a half million ethnic Armenians exterminated in the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1923.

The Armenian Genocide Memorial on a hillside just west of Yerevan, Armenia, commemorates the one and a half million ethnic Armenians exterminated in the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1923.

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Type(s) of Resources: 
  • Non-fiction
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • First Person Accounts
  • Photographs
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 9-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Community Member
  • Teacher and Student
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Social Studies