Exhibition: Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering the Armenian Genocide

The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were hundreds of thousands of lives lost but entire families across multiple generations were permanently forced from their homes.

The narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were often severed forever.

Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of survival passed on by a grandparent who survived or, if lucky, an old photograph of a distant, silent, ancestor. By contrast the Dildilian family chose to speak.

Two generations gave voice to their experience in lengthy written memoirs, in diaries and letters, and most unusually in photographs and drawings.