Memories of the Genocide in Armenia in 1915

s with Survivors Soon Accessible in Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation at Freie Universität Berlin. As of Friday, April 24, it will be possible to explore the genocide of the Armenians 100 years ago using's in the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation accessible at Freie Universität Berlin. The collection of the Armenian Film Foundation is being integrated into the Visual History Archive. To this day the systematic deportation and extermination of about 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is not recognized as genocide by the Turkish government. Little is known about the role of the German Empire as a former ally of the Ottoman Empire. The atrocities began on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals. On that day the Ottoman Minister of the Interior issued an order to arrest the most important leaders in the Armenian community in Istanbul and to deport them to a camp in central Anatolia.