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ARMENIAN CHILDREN FOUND SHELTER THANKS
TO ORPHAN GATHERING ACTIVITIES FROM 1918
TO 1921

SAW THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST
HOLLYWOOD MOVIE ABOUT THE ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE – THE SILENT MOVIE “RAVISHED
ARMENIA”

NEAR EAST RELIEF RAISED THIS AMOUNT
OVER 15 YEARS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE
ARMENIAN MIGRANTS AND ORPHANS
Van Khachatur’s models for the mother and child sculptures

The memorial complex was built in record time
– in two years. However, in contrast with other
“overachievements in planning,” this one was
not publicized. On November 29, 1967, the 47 th
anniversary of the Sovietization of Armenia, the
official inauguration took place of the Genocide
monument at the Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan.
This was publicly discussed for the first time
on November 30, 1967. The newspaper Soviet
Armenia dedicated the whole of its third page
to “Comrade A. Y. Kochinyan’s speech” and the
event that preceded it, “the inauguration of

The Memorial Complex does not Contain Numeric Symbols

The memorial complex occupies a space of
4-500 square meters. It consists mainly of three
structures – the vault-shrine of eternity, the
spire and the memorial wall.
The

pathway

leading

up

to

the

memorial

complex now goes past the 100-meter memorial
wall, lined with pieces of polished stone, with the
names of large Armenian-populated regions of
the Ottoman Empire, the people of which ended
up becoming the victims of this Turkish crime.

the structure immortalizing the memory of the

The “Armenia Reborn” memorial spire is a

victims of the 1915 Genocide.”

44-meter high styloid structure. It consists of