They Shall Not Perish

They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief is a film about Near East Relief (NER)'s efforts to counter the Armenian genocide. Shant Mardirossian, the chairperson emeritus of the organization, produced it,^[1] doing so through the company Acorne Productions. The writer and director is George Billard. Victor Garber serves as the narrator.^[2] A slogan on a NER fundraising poster was used for the film's name.^[3]

The film was first aired in the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum (previously the National Heritage Museum) in Lexington, Massachusetts (Boston metropolitan area) on October 13, 2017.^[4] On January 1, 2018 it was released on Netflix.^[1]

Cast

Andrea Martin as Baidzar Bakalian
Tony Shalhoub as Karnig Parnian
Ron Rifkin as Henry Morgenthau
Kathleen Chalfant as Mabel Elliot
Dariush Kashani as George Mardikian
Michael Aronov as Leslie A. Davis
Kara Vedder as Nellie Miller Mann

References

^ ^a ^b "'They Shall Not Perish' Armenian Genocide Documentary Now Streaming on Netflix". Armenian Weekly. 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
^ "Armenian Genocide Documentary 'They Shall Not Perish' Now Streaming on Netflix". Asbarez. 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
^ Janbazian, Rupen (2017-10-04). "'They Shall Not Perish': Telling the Story of Near East Relief through Film". Retrieved 2019-09-12. - Alternate link at Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
^ "'They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief' to Make Boston-Area Public Premiere Next Month". Armenian Weekly. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-12.

External links

They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief official site
Cohn, Gabe (2018-01-02). "What's on TV Tuesday: 'Tesla's Death Ray' and Near East Relief". The New York Times.
They Shall Not Perish at IMDb
Levitsky, Ron. "A Curriculum Guide for Teaching about America's Response to the Armenian, Anatolian Greek & Assyrian Genocides: They Shall Not Perish, The Story of Near East Relief" (PDF). - Collaborating with the Genocide Education Project and Near East Foundation

Works about the Armenian genocide

Books

Fiction	The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933) Jewish response Gabriel Bagradian The Story of the Last Thought (1989)
Non-fiction	The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ("The Blue Book") (1916) Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918) Ravished Armenia (1918) The Memoirs of Naim Bey (Naim-Andonian document) (1919) Armenian Golgotha (1922) The Road from Home (1979) Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century (1981) A Problem from Hell (2002) America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2003) The Burning Tigris (2003) The Great Game of Genocide (2005) A Shameful Act (2006) The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2006) The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha (2008) The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (2011) The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2011) The Making of Modern Turkey (2011) Denial of Violence (2015) Goodbye, Antoura (2015) Operation Nemesis (2015) They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (2015) Justifying Genocide (2016) Killing Orders (2016) Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (2018) Dark Pasts (2018) The Thirty-Year Genocide (2019) The Great Crime: An Aintab Diary (2020)

Fiction