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Just Published:
America and the Armenian Genocide of
1915

Sample Archival Documents on the Armenian Genocide

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This section features sample documents
relating to the genocide from U.S. and British
archives. The documents are available both as
images and as text.

U.S.
ARCHIVES

(United States of America,
National Archives and Records Administration
Record
Group 59, Records of the Department of State
Decimal
File 867, Internal Affairs of Turkey
Decimal File
860J, Internal Affairs of Armenia)

Appeal from the Catholicos of
the Armenian Church to protect Armenians. April 27,
1915.
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image | Read
text

Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan's response to the Catholicos' appeal to
protect Armenians. April 28, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Report of Allied warning to
the Ottoman government to stop the massacres of
Armenians. May 29, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Report that Ottoman Turkey is
seeking to exterminate the Armenian nation. July 16,
1915.
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image | Read
text

Secretary of State Robert
Lansing's response to news that Ottoman Turkey is
pursuing a policy of genocide against the Armenians.
July 16, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Report on the treatment of
Armenian children in Trebizond. July 20, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Report on the deportation of
Armenians from Zeitun. July 21, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Report from a German
missionary on the massacre of Armenians from Erzerum.
July 31, 1915.
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image | Read
text

Reflections on the role of
Talaat Pasha in the Armenian Genocide. September 7,
1921.
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image | Read
text

BRITISH ARCHIVES

(United Kingdom, Public
Record Office
Foreign Office Records
Class 371,
Diplomatic Records)

Report by a resident of Syria
on the condition of Armenian deportees. November 27,
1916.
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text

First-hand account by a
Turkish army officer on the deportation of Armenians
from Trebizond and Erzerum. December 26, 1916.
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image | Read
text

Memorandum by the Committee
of Union and Progress outlining the strategy for
implementing the Armenian Genocide. 1914-1915.
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image | Read
text

Report on the massacre of
Armenians in Cilicia under French administration. March
7, 1920.
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image | Read
text

Report on the forced exile of
the remaining Armenians from Aintab and Marash. November
15, 1922.
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image | Read
text

Statistics on the pre-war and
post-war Armenian population in Biledjik, Bardizag, and
Hendek.
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image | Read
text

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