Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day · Yadbud-e Nasl-koshi-ye Arameneh

Culture of origin: Armenian · Historical

Holiday sources: Armenian · Iran

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is a public holiday in Armenia and is kept by the Armenian diaspora. It remembers the 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottomans in massacres and starvation; the date recalls the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople on 24 April 1915. Survivors held the first commemoration in Istanbul in 1919, and in Yerevan hundreds of thousands walk to the Tsitsernakaberd memorial to lay flowers at its eternal flame.