May 19, 2025 • Greek Genocide • New York, NY

Pan-Pontian Federation of USA and Canada

106th Commemorative of the Greek Genocide

Monday, May 19th, 2025, 6:30 pm

Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center

130 Liberty Street - New York, NY 10006

This event is hosted under the auspices of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros,

and co-organized by the Pontian Societies of "Pontos", Norwalk, CT, "Komninoi", New York, NY, "Akritai", Philadelphia, PA, "O Pontos", Jersey City, NJ and the Holy Institution Panagia Soumela.

Each Year on May 19, Greeks around the world remember the over one million Greek subjects of the late Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace and Pontus (all three regions of present-day Turkey) who were victims of Genocide from 1913 - 1923.

The US House of Representatives Resolution 296, passed on October 29th, 2019, and the US Senate Resolution 150 passed on December 12th, 2019, acknowledged that the Genocide of the Armenians was not an isolated crime. It was also committed against the other Christian populations of the late Ottoman Empire: Greeks, Assyrians and other minorities. Thus, it is fitting that a day of remembrance should also acknowledge these other victims of that great crime.

The systematic Greek Genocide began on in April of 1913 in Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor. It then continued in the Pontus region with May 19th, 1919, marking the beginning of the last phase of this Genocide which culminated with the destruction of Smyrna in September of 1922. Each region experienced thousands upon thousands of victims through deportations, death marches, hard labor, massacres, and outright killings of innocent civilians.

Congress Resolutions

House of Representatives H. Res. 296 (Oct. 29th, 2019) and Senate S. RES 150 (Dec. 12th, 2019):

“… Whereas the United States has a proud history of recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide, the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, and providing relief to the survivors of the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians; …”.

International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

December 2007

“… BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks. …”.