Armenian families next to makeshift tents in a refugee camp. Ottoman Empire, 1915-16.Photograph taken by Armin T. Wegner.

Wegner served as a nurse with the German Sanitary Corps. In 1915 and 1916, Wegner traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire and documented atrocities carried out against the Armenians.

Collection: Images

Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.

Chronology: XX

Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education

Link: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/armenian-familiesin-a-refugee-camp

Resource type: Photo

Format: Images

Source: United Satates Holocaust Memorial Museum

Date: 1915-1916

Owner: Porto group (Modernalia)

Abstract: Armenian Genocide

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