Remembering the Armenian Genocide: 1915-1917

This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Is it her responsibility to carry on the traditions of her forbears who bear the scars of the Genocide of 1915? Through her story one realizes how the legacy of history has impacted on a people. Those Armenians who survived the catastrophic persecution by the Ottoman Turks became part of a diaspora.

In 1915 the Turks massacred more than a million Armenians, an act Armenians and most historians call genocide. But to this day, the Turkish government denies that what took place was genocide. Instead, they say it was a time of war and many people died. Bob Simon reports on the historical massacre and the conflict that continues about whether it was war or genocide.