ACTS OF CONSCIENCE: Armin T. Wegner and the Armenian Genocide

Original Film – Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Role: Film Director / Art Director

 

The film, Acts of Conscience, looks at the genocide through the lens of Armin T. Wegner, a German war medic who photographed and documented atrocities against the Armenian Christian minority that were occurring around him in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War – including forced "death marches" through the desert. In the 1930s, Wegner also voiced his opposition to the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazis and authored an impassioned plea to Hitler on behalf of the Jews of Germany.

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Compelled by his conscience to take action despite great personal risk, Wegner's story epitomizes the importance of efforts to combat the denial and minimization that often surround gross human rights violations.