Armenia/Turkey

On April 24, 1915, the Turkish government arrested more than 200 Armenian community leaders; most were executed in what marked the beginning of an organized campaign to expel the Armenian people from the Ottoman Empire. Armenians were removed from their homes and forced into railway cars or on death marches into the desert, left without shelter, food or water. Death toll estimates range from 300,000 to over 1.5 million. The brutal efficiency of the Armenian genocide is often said to have greatly influenced Hitler. To this day, the government of Turkey denies that it committed genocide against its Armenian population.

Film

Documentary:

Screamers, 2006, Carla Garapedian

Fiction:

Ararat, 2002, Atom Egoyan

Literature

Narrative nonfiction:

Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller, Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993
Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Sterndale Classics, London, 2003 (1918)
Florence Soghoian, Portrait of a Survivor, Christopher, 1997

Fiction:

Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Three Apples Fell from Heaven, Libri, New York, 2002
Kay Mouradian, A Gift in the Sunlight: An Armenian Story, Taderon Press, London and Reading, 2005
Anonia Arslan, Skylark Farm, Vintage New York, 2007