Bidspirit auction | Orig. photo PC of Execution

Orig. photo PC of Execution of Armenians in Jerusalem, 1915, during genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Empire. - Orig. photo PC of Execution of Armenians in Jerusalem, 1915, during genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Empire. On the necks of the hanged men there is a poster with the inscription in Turkish: “Traitor” Hangings outside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem Good condition. Sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation. The Turks in Jerusalem - Execution by hanging, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Eretz Israel, photograph showing Turkish soldiers in uniform against a background of people sentenced to hanging.