Deir ez-Zor camps

Deir ez-Zor camps
Concentration camp
Bodil Biørn's caption: "The Armenian leader Papasian considers the last remnants of the horrific murders at Deir ez-Zor in 1915–1916."
Deir ez-Zor camps is located in Syria
Deir ez-Zor camps
Location of Deir ez-Zor in contemporary Syria
Coordinates35°20′00″N 40°9′00″E / 35.33333°N 40.15000°E / 35.33333; 40.15000
Known forMass murder of Ottoman Armenians during the Armenian genocide
LocationDeir ez-Zor, Ottoman Empire
Operated byOttoman Empire
Operational1910s
InmatesArmenians
Killed150,000
Armenian refugees collected near the body of a dead horse at Deir ez-Zor

The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps[1] in the heart of the Syrian desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo, Jesse B. Jackson, estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus, numbered 150,000, all of whom were virtually destitute.[2]

  1. ^ Winter, Jay (2009). America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Cambridge University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-051-149760-5. OL 34442571M.
  2. ^ Bramwell, Anna C. (2021) [1988]. Refugees in the Age of Total War. Taylor & Francis. p. 45. ISBN 978-100-045957-9. OL 33927375M.