In 1985, Armenian Genocide researcher Richard D. Kloian published the first compilation of U.S. newspaper articles depicting the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. In 388-pages, Kloian offered historians and the general public unique access to hundreds of news items from top publications, including The New York Times, The Literary Digest, Current History Magazine, Mission Review of the World, The Independent, The Atlantic Monthly and many others.
As newspapers large and small began digitizing their archives, the breadth and depth of U.S. media coverage of the murder of over 2.5 million Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians by the Ottoman Turkish Government from 1915-1923 – and the overwhelming international humanitarian response to this tragedy – are coming to light like never before.
On the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian National Committee of America launched genocidediary.org – a collection of articles from major U.S. newspapers to hometown publications, offering a daily diary of American memory about the Armenian Genocide.
The effort is a work in progress, as the ANCA’s team of volunteer researchers, transcribers, proofreaders and graphic designers strive to make the over 15,000+ U.S. articles digitized to date available for easy research and review.
Interested in volunteering on the ANCA’s genocidediary.org project? Send an email to Elizabeth Chouldjian —elizabeth@anca.org.
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
ADOLF HITLER
The Armenian Genocide was the centrally planned and systematically executed deportation and murder of over 2 million Christian Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians by the Ottoman Turkish Government from 1915-1923.
Despite overwhelming documentation by historians and condemnation by over 25 countries worldwide, an repentant Turkey seeks to both enforce an international gag-rule against truthful affirmation of the Armenian Genocide and to obstruct a just international resolution of this still unpunished crime.
These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.
MUSTAFA KEMALWho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
ADOLF HITLERMr. Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I. – Congressional Record, pg. 8890
GERALD FORD