Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day | Armenian Survivor J. Michael Hagopian | USC Shoah Foundation
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Armenian Genocide survivor, J. Michael Hagopian, was born in Elâzığ, Turkey (Ottoman Empire) in 1913. In 1979, Michael founded the Armenian Film Foundation, where he collected 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors. In 2010, Michael handed over the digitized collection to USC Shoah Foundation, to index the testimonies, and integrate them into the Visual History Archive.
Michael recorded the interviews with survivors and witnesses of the 1915 Armenian Genocide on 16 mm film between 1972 and 2005, when most were in their 70s and 80s. The survivors and witnesses who make up this rare collection – all now deceased – were interviewed in 10 different languages and were between the ages of eight and 29 during the genocide. The 400 interviews, housed with the Armenian Film Foundation, represent the largest archive of filmed Armenian Genocide interviews in the world.
Michael’s testimony was recorded in 2010, shortly before he passed away.
April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
April is Genocide Awareness Month.
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