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Between spring 1915 and autumn 1916, the Ottoman Empire arrested, deported, conducted mass killings, and created conditions intended to cause widespread death among the country’s Armenian Christian citizens, most of whom were living in the territory of modern-day Turkey. Between 664,000 and 1.2 million Armenian men, women, and children died in the genocide. Learn more through the Museum's historical resources.
Learn more about the physical annihilation of ethnic Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire.
Read the Museum’s statement on the recognition of the Armenian genocide by President Biden.
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Country Case Studies
Find information on historical cases of genocide and other atrocities.