Margaret Dildilian Collection on the Armenian Genocide
Scope & Content Note
This Collection consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, email correspondences with printed associated articles, and additional printed fact sheets, book chapters and journal publications that relate to the Armenian Genocide as collected by Margaret Dildilian.
Dates
- c.1960-2010
Creator
- Margaret Dildilian (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research. Staff may restrict access at its discretion on the basis of physical condition.
Copyright
The Margaret Dildilian Armenian Genocide Aggregate Collection is physically owned by the Queens College Libraries. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assignees. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Queens College assumes no responsibility for the infringement of copyrights held by the original authors, creators, or producers of materials.
Historical Note
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Massacres, was the systematic killing and deportation of the Armenian people by the Ottoman government between the years 1915-1923. It is estimated that between 800,000 and 1.5 million people were killed in the area that largely is in present day Turkey. These events as well as the Jewish Holocaust led to Raphael Lemkin to coin the word “genocide” to describe the systematic killing of an ethnic group.
This collection primarily covers the push for having the Armenian Genocide officially recognized by the international community and Turkish – United States relations and tensions over this issue in the 2000s. It also focuses on commemoration events in the United States as well as publications and arts (movies, theatre) that relate to the Armenian Genocide.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Adstract
This collection contains materials collected by Margaret Dildilian that cover the Armenian Genocide, Turkish-American Relations (c. 2000s), and the Armenian-American experience.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into four series based on the types of materials that were collected and then further arranged by date.
Series I: Fact Sheets and Informational booklets
Series II: News clippings
Series III: Events
Series IV: Publications
Source
Donated by Margaret Dildilian c.2010
- Title
- Margaret Dildilian Collection on the Armenian Genocide
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding Aid and machine readable format created by Thomas Cleary 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us
QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu
