Deir ez-Zor Camps were concentration camps in the heart of the Syrian desert where many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian Genocide . The United States vice-consul in Aleppo , Jesse B. Jackson , estimated that Armenian refugees , as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus , numbered 150,000 , all of whom were virtually destitute
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Deir ez-Zor Camps