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Deir ez-Zor Camps

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From Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA where not otherwise stated).

  • Armenian refugee camp at Deir ez-Zor 1915.png

    Photo by Turkish general staff via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Armrefugees.jpg

    Photo by American Committee for Relief in the Near East via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Den armenske leder Papasian ved Der-ez-Zor - PA 0699 U 36 150 (restored).jpg

    Photo by Bodil Katharine Biørn via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Den armenske leder Papasian ved Der-ez-Zor - PA 0699 U 36 150.jpg

    Photo by Bodil Katharine Biørn via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps 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.

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Death-row facility

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Data completeness

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