Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute to open exhibition featuring eyewitness accounts

On April 23, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute will inaugurate a temporary exhibition titled Documenting the Crime: Eyewitness Recorders of the Armenian Genocide, commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The exhibition presents approximately seventy firsthand accounts—memoirs, diaries, official reports, photo-documentary materials, films, and more—offering a compelling chronicle of the genocide as observed and recorded by witnesses from across the globe, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute said in a press release.

These eyewitnesses hailed from a number of countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Greece, Italy, the Vatican, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, India, Iran, Syria, among others. Present in the Ottoman Empire under various circumstances, they bore witness to the atrocities and documented them with remarkable clarity and urgency.

The exhibition also features Turkish chroniclers who, through personal memoirs, contemporary press articles, and judicial proceedings, provided critical documentation of the crimes perpetrated against the Armenian people.

The powerful and extensive body of testimony left by these eyewitnesses captures the horror of the Armenian Genocide and serves as an extraordinary collection of primary sources. These accounts stand as irrefutable evidence of the crimes against humanity and civilization committed in the Ottoman Empire. They also underscore a stark truth: the world was fully aware of the atrocities being carried out against the Armenian people.

The exhibition will remain open to the public through April 2026.