Websites

Research more from our quality collection of pertinent and useful information via the web.

1. The State of California Center of Excellence on the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance. Has comprehensive materials on the genocide in Armenia including background, articles, book lists, links to original documents, links to relevant web sites, etc.
2. Armin T. Wegner. This website links to a biography and photographs by a man who was a German soldier in World War I, and found himself appalled by what was happening to the Armenians. He took hundreds of photographs of the events, and made strenuous efforts to publicize the events in the hope that the German people would object to the treatment of Armenians, if they should happen to learn the full truth.
3. Armenian National Institute. This website seems to have it all. It contains resources for curriculum, photos, archival documents, a chronology, and related organizations. The educational resources looked especially helpful. (For teachers and students.)
4. Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum. National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. An amazing site it is the online link to a museum in the Republic of Armenia. Contains mainly historical information but also has pictures, eyewitness accounts, and art. A very moving site.
5. CIA: The World Factbook. Up-to-date information on countries all over the world.
6. Cilisia Armenia Site. Another fantastic site that contains, pictures, quotes, eyewitness accounts and an easy to understand before, during and after the genocide history. An excellent site for teachers and older students (the pictures are pretty gruesome.) (Note: This website was written by Raffi Kojian, who occasionally presents at the Center’s workshops.)
7. Forgotten, The: Armenian Genocide. The website commemorates the Armenian Genocide of April 24, 1915, with a dramatic presentation of photos of the event, the ABC documentary with Peter Jennings shown on national TV in 2001, a map of the cities and towns where the Genocide took place in Turkey as well as interviews with several Armenian Genocide survivors.
8. HistoryWiz—For Lovers of History: The Armenian Genocide. Has lots of background material, links, photos, and bibliographies that are useful for students and teachers.
9. Raphael Lemkin on Genocide - Key Writings. An online collection of writings by the man who coined the word "genocide." The collection spans the years from 1933-1947 and includes items in English, French, German and Spanish. This collection is a resource for all who want to understand the origins of the concept of genocide and the efforts of Raphael Lemkin to have genocide recognized as an international crime. It also includes an overall introduction, a brief commentary on each document and chronology of Lemkin's life.
10. TeachGenocide.org–Tolerance Through Education. (Published by the Armenian National Committee.) This site is an excellent resource for teachers, making available extensive documents for teaching about the Armenian Genocide that can be easily downloaded and used in the classroom. It includes teaching guides, bibliography of historical texts, news coverage, maps, photographs, age-appropriate literature, and survivor accounts, as well as a list of websites (17 pages with summaries about all of them—extremely helpful!) compiled by Richard Kloian (another of the presenters for our workshops.)
11. Teaching the Armenian Genocide (Adobe Acrobat Reader required. PDF: 18pp. 677KB).
    Compiled by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center (AGRC), this July 2003 PDF document lists websites and provides summaries of each site for your convenience.