article_snippet.sent: Armenian deportees travel on foot in 1915 as taken by Armin Wegner, including women and children on an unpaved road in the desert sun .
article_snippet.sent: This image was titled 'Abandoned and murdered small children of the (Armenian) deportees' by Wegner and was taken in 1915-1916 .
article_snippet.sent: The image was taken in 1915 just before the mass deportation of Armenians to the desert had begun.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian deportees sleeping in the street in 1915 in the Syrian region of the Ottoman empire.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian deportees sleeping in the street in 1915 in the Syrian region of the Ottoman empire are mostly women without families .
article_snippet.sent: The deportation began following the rounding up of 235 Armenian leaders and intellectuals in the capital on April 24, 1915 - the anniversary of which is marked today.
article_snippet.sent: And in a third of Wegner's incredible images taken in 1915, a band of Armenian deportees, including a woman carrying a baby, children and elderly men, stagger through the desert along an unpaved road in the blazing suns towards children and elderly men hellish new lives as refugees.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian deportees living in the open desert with bedding as their only shelter, though luckier families in the background have tents .
article_snippet.sent: German-born Wegner describe the scene as 'Armenian deportees living in the open desert under makeshift tents.
article_snippet.sent: Clothing of some deportees is already worn to rags' A painfully thin orphan of the massacre (left) taken by Elder in Yerevan, now the capital of Armenia, in 1918.