A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community’s rich, if pained, history. The Mardigian Museum showcases Armenian culture and tells of the community’s centuries-long connection to the holy city. At the same time, it is a memorial to around 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks around World War I, in what many scholars consider the 20th century’s first genocide. A visitor tours the Armenian Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of c...
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