YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Assembly of America has introduced images of the Armenian Genocide online on its website.

The exhibit creates a panoramic view of the entire duration of the Armenian Genocide. All facets of the genocide that the photographic record allows, ranging from the deportations, executions, massacres, murders, starvation, extermination and destruction, are reconstructed per panel. The exhibit also documents the immediate aftermath of the atrocities, attesting to the catastrophic ruination of Armenian society in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. With panels displaying photographs of survivors, rescued women, homeless children and refugees, the scale and depth of the uprooting of the Armenian people are revealed.

The city of Zeytun was the first Armenian community in Ottoman Turkey deported en masse in April 1915. Part of its population was routed along the Berlin-Bagdad rail line all the way to Konya, where an American hospital was located. Based on the photographs taken by Dr. Wilfred Post, the testimony of Dr. William Dodd, and the efforts of Miss Emma Cushman, the exhibits reconstruct the fate of the Armenians in central Anatolia, far from the deserts of Syria. Retrieved from the United States National Archives, the entire set of photographs taken by Dr. Wilfred Post is being issued for the first time in this exhibit.

Another exhibit explains the importance of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin during the Armenian Genocide and examines the vital leadership role played by the clergy during the Armenian Genocide, especially the all-important intervention of His Holiness Catholicos Gevorg V Sureniants in alerting world leaders about the massacres, effectively issuing the first "early warning" of an impending genocide.

Although Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire were military allies during World War I, the Ottoman Turkish authorities responsible for the Armenian Genocide prohibited taking pictures and closely watched anyone suspected of owning a camera. Despite the threat of a court martial, several German civilians and other German military officials assigned to the Ottoman Empire during the war disregarded the ban and secretly photographed the mistreatment of the Armenian population.