Young emaciated children rest in and along the side of an unidentified street. Several of them appear to be wearing dirty rags and one child is lying in the street in the nude. They all appear to be starving, sick, and dirty.
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Armenian children lie in the street of an unidentified town

Armenian children lie in the street of an unidentified town. Photograph taken by Armin T. Wegner. Wegner served as a nurse with the German Sanitary Corps. In 1915 and 1916, Wegner traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire and documented atrocities carried out against the Armenians. [Courtesy of Sybil Stevens (daughter of Armin T. Wegner). Wegner Collection, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach & United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.]


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