09.04.2024


The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has, in recent months, initiated studies of large and small archives in different countries in order to make scientific research more active.

AGMI researchers Regina Galustyan, Anna Kazaryan and Shushan Khachatryan visited the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, in December 2023, with Regina Galustyan and Anna Kazaryan making a return visit there in March 2024. They went to study Armenian documents stored in the National Archives of Tbilisi and the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. These related to to the settling of Armenian refugees and orphans in various places in the Caucasus after the Armenian Genocide and the activities of humanitarian organizations. They also examined documents concerning the foreign policy of the viceroyalty of the Caucasus relating to the Armenians as well as Russian-language newspapers published in Baku in 1914-1918, copies of which are unavailable in the Republic of Armenia and which may have references to episodes of the Armenian Genocide.

Narek Poghosyan, an AGMI researcher, was sent to New York in March 2024 to study the archive collection belonging to lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”, which is held in the main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Poghosyan singled out materials that are valuable from the point of view of the impact of the Armenian Genocide on the lawyer himself and the implementation of Genocide studies in general. As part of his research journey, Poghosyan also visited the Center for Jewish History in New York and Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, where he also studied the Raphael Lemkin collections.

The materials singled out as a result of these visits are of prime importance for the study of various episodes of the history of the Armenian Genocide. They will be processed by Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute researchers and presented to the general public through scientific publications.