Orphans of the Genocide

2013 television film by Bared Maronian

Orphans of the Genocide

Orphans of the Genocide movie poster

Written by| Bared Maronian
Jacky Abramian
Directed by| Bared Maronian
Country of origin| America
Production
Cinematography| Armenoid Productions
Running time| 90 minutes
Original release
Release| April 2013 (2013-04)[1]

Orphans of the Genocide (Armenian: Ցեղասպանության որբերը), is a 2013 television film written and directed by American-Armenian filmmaker Bared Maronian. Filmed was premiered in 2015 at the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The heroes of the film who tell their stories are the descendants of the genocide survivors.[2]

## Plot

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In the documentary an Armenian orphanage located at Antoura, Beirut, Lebanon was unveiled, where thousands of Armenian genocide orphans had lived and were forcefully "Turkified" during World War I. Interviews of software engineer and historian Maurice Kelechian, Almast Boghossian, Jack Kevorkian, British journalist Robert Fisk, and Debórah Dwork are included in the film.[3]

## Author's remarks

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"The stories of the Armenian genocide orphans that we highlight in the documentary are of universal proportions. Meaning, the experiences that the orphans of the Armenian genocide went through are the same experiences (loss of family members, starvation, pain, epidemics such as typhus, social displacement) that the orphans of the Cambodian genocide, the Holocaust orphans, and the Darfur genocide orphans went through. Therefore, the Armenian genocide is not only an Armenian issue. It concerns all of the civilized world. A large number of scholars agree that, had the world paid closer attention to the Armenian genocide – the first genocide of the 20th century – the genocides that followed it would have never happened." — Bared Maronian[4]

## See also

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* Armenian genocide
* Armenian genocide in culture
* Vorpahavak (Armenian: Վորպահավակ; lit. 'gathering of orphans')

## References

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1. ^ Armenoid Productions (March 27, 2013). "PBS Station to Screen 'Orphans of the Genocide'". Asbarez: Armenian News (Press release). Little Armenia, California: Armenian Media Network. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
2. ^ Orphans of the Genocide – directed by Bared Maronian –Armenia/Canada/Lebanon/Syria /USA – 91 min. – Canadian Premiere – PG 13
3. ^ Preweda, Stephanie (February 22, 2015). ""Orphans" film documents centennial of 1915 Armenian genocide". Arts & Entertainment. The Oakland Press. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
4. ^ 'Orphans of the Genocide' Director Talks Universality of Armenian Genocide

## External links

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* Orphans of the Genocide at IMDb
* Orphans of the Genocide
* Bared Maronian: Orphans of the Genocide Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
* Documentary: Orphans of the Genocide

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Works about the Armenian genocide

Books|

| Fiction|

* The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
* Jewish response
* Gabriel Bagradian
* The Story of the Last Thought (1989)
* Skylark Farm (2004)

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Non-fiction|

* The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ("The Blue Book") (1916)
* Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918)
* Ravished Armenia (1918)
* The Memoirs of Naim Bey (Naim-Andonian document) (1919)
* Armenian Golgotha (1922)
* The Road from Home (1979)
* Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century (1981)
* A Problem from Hell (2002)
* America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2003)
* The Burning Tigris (2003)
* The Great Game of Genocide (2005)
* A Shameful Act (2006)
* The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2006)
* The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha (2008)
* The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (2011)
* The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2011)
* The Making of Modern Turkey (2011)
* Denial of Violence (2015)
* Goodbye, Antoura (2015)
* Operation Nemesis (2015)
* They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (2015)
* Justifying Genocide (2016)
* Killing Orders (2016)
* Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (2018)
* Dark Pasts (2018)
* The Thirty-Year Genocide (2019)
* The Great Crime: An Aintab Diary (2020)

Films|

* Ravished Armenia/The Auction of Souls (1919)
* Nahapet (1977)
* The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1982)
* Back to Ararat (1988)
* Ararat (2002)
* My Son Shall Be Armenian (2004)
* The Armenian Genocide (2006)
* Screamers (2006)
* The Lark Farm (2007)
* The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact (2009)
* Aghet – Ein Völkermord (2010)
* The Cut (2014)
* Orphans of the Genocide (2014)
* 1915 (2015)
* Map of Salvation (2015)
* The Promise (2016)
* Intent to Destroy (2017)
* They Shall Not Perish (2017)
* Aurora's Sunrise (2022)

| Accused of denialism|

* The Water Diviner (2014)
* The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

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