The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of the First World War and at the beginning of the
Memorial to Franz Werfel by Ohan Petrosian in Schiller Park in Vienna. The granite pillar carries the inscription: "In gratitude and respect. The Armenian people."
An exhibit dedicated to the siege and the novel at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia.
Musa Dagh
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Musa Dagh is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the nov
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
…the second year of the First World War and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The novel focuses on a small community of Armenians living near Musa Dagh, a mountain in Vilayet of Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire that defended themselves there. The mountain is now in Hatay Province, part of southern Turkey…
Armenian combatants in Musa Dagh
A French warship embarks Armenian refugees from Musa Dagh in September 1915.
Location of the Armenian camp during the resistance.
The remains of the monument near the top of Musa Dagh in memory of the French warships that rescued the Armenian people on 12 September 1915. Picture taken on 12 September 2015, the 100th anniversary of the rescue.