@ The Music Center Plaza & Grand Park, Downtown L.A.

@ The Music Center Plaza & Grand Park, Downtown L.A.

A public art installation by artists Ara Oshagan, Levon Parian and architect Vahagn Thomasian

Genocide Monument at Grand Park

Genocide Monument at Grand Park

Read about the permanent monument.

The Installation

The Installation

Learn more about the Installation.

The Survivors

The Survivors

See the Survivor profiles, pictures, and stories.

The Project

The Project

A behind the scene look at the making of the Installation.

Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich &
The Lucie Foundation present

An Official MOPLA exhibit &
the first public art installation in Grand Park

iwitness: Armenian Genocide 1915

Public Art Installation | Centennial Commemoration

Artists:  Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian
Architect:  Vahagn Thomasian

April 25 – May 31, 2015
Opening Saturday, April 25th at 5 pm

The Music Center Plaza & Grand Park

The Music Center Plaza & Grand Park
200 N. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012 // (213) 972-8080
Open daily from 5:30 am to 10 pm

#iwitness1915

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  • But I couldn't cry. I was covered with blood from the other bodies on top of me, but I couldn't cry. If I had, I would not be here today.

    - Sam Kadorian

  • "Don't let them take me", she said. "Don't let them take me."

    - Edward Bedikian

  • They raped him! Raped! Just like that. Right in front of us.

    - Kristine Hagopian

The Survivors

Hampartzoum

Chitjian

By early spring of 1915, he and his father had gone to the vineyard to cultivate the vines for the following year, when abruptly a villager ran by to warn his father not to return to his house…

Shake

Bogharian

I was too little to remember anything. I don’t remember anything from those years. My mother was a teacher and my father worked in a rice factory. When the Genocide began, they fled into hills to become fedayeen to fight the Turks.

Dickran

Der-Ghazarian

I remember it was early April, 1915, when all the men in Kharpert went to work, but never returned. My father was among them and we heard he was taken to a jail in Mezre. My sister went to see him.

Kristine

Hagopian

We already had been deported once, in 1915, sent towards Der-Zor. But, my uncle’s friend had connections in the government and he had us ordered back to Izmir.

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