Armenian-Jewish connection: the influence of Holocaust cinema on feature films about the Armenian genocide

The author demonstrates in this article the parallels and connections between films about the Armenian genocide and Holocaust films. He shows that the production of films about the Armenian Genocide was for a long time blocked by the Turkish Government. However, Jews in interwar and wartime Europe turned to the topic of the Armenian genocide, because they saw in it a precursor to their own persecution by Nazi Germany. After WWII several movies about the Armenian Genocide were produced, which made analogies to Holocaust films, and used images and scenarios from them.