- Title
- Long Shadows — The Great War, Australia and the Middle East: From the Armenian to the Yazidi Genocide
- Creator
- Schneider, Caroline; Kieser, Hans-Lukas
- Relation
- Genocide Perspectives VI. The Process and the Personal Cost of Genocide p. 159-175
- Relation
- Genocide Perspectives 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/aaf.j
- Publisher
- University of Technology Sydney
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- This essay is based on the exhibition ‘Long Shadows—The Great War, Australia and the Middle East’, displayed at the University Gallery of the University of Newcastle (Australia) from 5 September to 11 November 2018. The essay synthesises the exhibition’s main content and focus, and adds reflection. ‘Long Shadows’ made a connection between Australia’s military operation on the Gallipoli peninsula and what would come to be known as the Armenian Genocide, and presented detailed information on the persecution of the Armenian population. ‘Long Shadows’ implicitly suggested that a fair public memory of the night of 24 to 25 April 1915, must address both the Australians’ (Anzac) and the Armenians’ (Armenian Genocide) trauma. France—whose soldiers fought alongside Britain and Australia in 1915—has recently decided to do so: it named 24 April a national day of genocide commemoration.
- Subject
- Holocaust history; education; justice; human rights; atrocity prevention; genocide
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439112
- Identifier
- uon:40826
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780977520053
- Language
- eng
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