Zeitun has been the first Armenian community to be massively dislodged by the Ottoman Empire in April of 1915.
Zeitun has been the first Armenian community to be massively dislodged by the Ottoman Empire in April of 1915. According to the plan, Zeitun residents were to be deprived of any opportunity to organize a resistance. For that very reason the part of the residents were sent to the Syrian Desert and the other part to the Konya plain.
Three missioners working in the American hospital in Konya inadvertently witnessed the Armenian Genocide. Konya station was to serve as a transit camp. As all Armenians of Centern and Western Anatolia had to pass that way, the station turned into a concentration camp.
The photo is taken from the U.S. national archive. It is displayed in the 3rd digital exhibition on Armenian Genocide for the first time. The author of the photo is Dr. Wilfred Post, one of the 3 missionaries of the American hospital. His very photos became the first testimonies of the genocide.
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