--- title: 'Where the Victims Are: Save the Survivors, 3,950,000 Starving People' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/where-the-victims-are-save-the-survivors-1919/ description: A map of the Near East, from Greece and Turkey to Persia, Arabia and Turkestan, carries a column of figures (square miles, non-Muslim population in 1914. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Where the Victims Are: Save the Survivors, 3,950,000 Starving People **Content note:** Map poster citing deaths from massacre and starvation among Christian and other populations in the Near East, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Where the Victims Are: Save the Survivors, 3,950,000 Starving People, 1919 US poster: A map of the Near East, from Greece](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/where-the-victims-are-save-the-survivors-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/where-the-victims-are-save-the-survivors-1919.jpg) # Where the Victims Are: Save the Survivors, 3,950,000 Starving People A map of the Near East, from Greece and Turkey to Persia, Arabia and Turkestan, carries a column of figures (square miles, non-Muslim population in 1914, deaths from 'Massacre and Starvation') beside the headline 'Save the Survivors' and a 0,000,000 campaign goal. The tell is the stacking of large round numbers in red against the geography, so that the scale of need is presented as a single count the viewer can answer with a donation. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WHERE THE VICTIMS ARE Number of Square Miles - 10,395,881 Non-Moslems (Christians chiefly) living in these countries in 1914 - 8,105,000 Died of Massacre and Starvation - 1,000,000 SAVE THE SURVIVORS - 3,950,000 STARVING PEOPLE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF IN THE NEAR EAST 1 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK CITY CLEVELAND H. DODGE, TREASURER CAMPAIGN for $30,000,000 [Map labels: ITALY, GREECE, BLACK SEA, CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, CASPIAN SEA, KHIVA, TURKESTAN, TURKEY, PERSIA, MESOPOTAMIA, SYRIA, ARABIA, HEDJAN, ASIR, YEMEN, OMAN, EL HASA, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, ARABIAN SEA, AFGHANISTAN, BALUCHISTAN, and city names including Constantinople, Smyrna, Angora, Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Teheran, Medina, Mecca, Cairo, Khartoum] ``` [← "The Child at Your Door": 400,000 Orphans Starving, Campaign for $30,000,000](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-child-at-your-door-near-east-relief-1919/) [You Saved Food for Them, Now Save to Make Their Victory Complete: Eat Less, Waste Nothing →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/you-saved-food-for-them-eat-less-waste-nothing-1919/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)