University of Southern California Shoah Foundation
The VHA currently contains 245 interviews relating to the Armenian Genocide recorded between 1975 and 2005 by filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian and the Armenian Film Foundation. For more background on this collection, please see the USC Shoah Foundation website.
These interviews comprise the following different interviewee experience groups:
They were recorded in 13 countries:
In four different languages:
Selected Indexing Terms
Adana Massacres (April 14-17 and April 25-27, 1909)
Aharonian, Avetis
anti-Armenian arrests
anti-Armenian roundups
Arabs
Armenian Apostolic Church
Armenian Apostolic clergy
Armenian armed forces
Armenian Catholic Church
Armenian diaspora
Armenian Earthquake (December 7, 1988)
Armenian Evangelical Church
Armenian Genocide awareness (1915-1923)
Armenian Genocide denial
Armenian Genocide faith issues
Armenian Genocide history
Armenian Genocide indifference/ignorance
Armenian Genocide testimony sharing reluctance
Armenian Genocide testimony-sharing willingness
Armenian Genocide-related psychological reactions
Armenian history
Armenian identity
Armenian persecution awareness (pre-1915)
Armenian prisoners
Armenian refugees
Armenian resistance fighters
Armenian resistance groups
Armenian soldiers
Armenians
Assyrians
Atatürk, Kemal
Azeris
Battle of Gallipoli (February 19, 1915 - January 9, 1916)
Battle of Sardarabad (May 21-29, 1918)
Battle of Sarıkamış (December 22, 1914 - January 17, 1915)
Boghos Nubar Pasha
Cemal Pasa
Cevdet Bey
Chechens
chetes
Circassians
Committee of Union and Progress
Coolidge, John Calvin
Dashnaktsutyun
Defense of Van (April 7 - May 6, 1915)
Enver Pasa
Great Fire of Smyrna (September 13-22, 1922)
Hagopian, J. Michael
Hairenik (newspaper)
Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)
historic Armenia
Hunchakian Party
Kanaian, Drastamat
Keri
King–Crane Commission (1919)
Kurds
Lloyd George, David
Manukian, Aram
Morgenthau, Henry Sr.
Musa Dagh Resistance (1915)
Near East Relief
Ottoman armed forces
Ottoman Empire history
Ottoman gendarmerie
Ottoman government officials
Ottoman police
Ottoman soldiers
Ozanian, Andranik
pan
Pastermadjian, Karekin
post-Armenian Genocide awareness (1923-)
post-Armenian Genocide documents and artifacts (stills)
post-Armenian Genocide family photographs (stills)
post-Armenian Genocide photographs (stills)
post-Armenian Genocide reflections
pre-Armenian Genocide documents and artifacts (stills)
pre-Armenian Genocide family photographs (stills)
pre-Armenian Genocide photographs (stills)
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Sebastatsi Murad
Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Syrian history
Talat Pasa
tilt
Turkification
Turkish government officials
Turkish history
Turks
United States government officials
Wilhelm II
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Wilsonian Armenia
Yezidis
Yezidism
Young Turk Revolution (July 1908)
Zohrab, Krikor
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Selected Bibliography
Akçam, Taner and Ümit Kurt. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. Print.
Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006. Print.
Akçam, Taner. From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide. London: Zed Books, 2004. Print.
Dadrian, Vahakn N. and Taner Akçam. Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. Print.
Dadrian, Vahakn N.. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995. Print.
Dadrian, Vahakn N.. Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1999. Print.
Göçek, Fatma M.. Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.
Hovannisian, Richard G.. Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2003. Print.
Hovannisian, Richard G.. The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2007. Print.
Kevorkian, Raymond. The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. Print.
Kevorkian, Raymond. “The Extermination of Ottoman Armenians by the Young Turk Regime (1915-1916).” Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence. 3 Jun. 2008. Web.
Suny, Ronald G., Fatma M. Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark. A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.
Suny, Ronald G.. "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Print.
Üngör, Uğur U. and Mehmet Polatel. Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property. London ; New York : Continuum, 2011. Print.
