Surviving The Forgotten Genocide

Author : John Minassian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538133712

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Surviving the Forgotten Genocide by John Minassian Pdf

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children—a modern process of total, violent erasure that began in 1895 and exploded under the cover of the First World War. John Minassian lived through this as a young man, witnessing the murder of his kin, concealing his identity as an orphan and laborer in Syria, and eventually immigrating to the United States to start his life anew. A rare testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide, one of just a handful of accounts in English, Minassian’s memoir is breathtaking in its vivid portraits of Armenian life and culture and poignant in its sensitive recollections of the many people who harmed and helped him. As well as a searing testimony, his memoir documents the wartime policies and behavior of Ottoman officials and their collaborators; the roles played by foreign armies and American missionaries; and the ultimate collapse of the empire. The author’s journey, and his powerful story of perseverance, despair, and survival, will resonate with readers today.

Author : Smpat Chorbadjian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195245008X

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Surviving the Forgotten Armenian Genocide by Smpat Chorbadjian Pdf

A gripping eye witness account of the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government against its Armenian subjects during World War 1. Smpat Chorbadjian tells his story of the appalling hardships he suffered. It shows his courage, endurance and the will to survive and records, his healing and restoration, after years of extreme misery.

Author : Donald E. Miller,Lorna Touryan Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520219564

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Survivors by Donald E. Miller,Lorna Touryan Miller Pdf

"A superb work of scholarship and a deeply moving human document. . . . A unique work, one that will serve truth, understanding, and decency."—Roger W. Smith, College of William and Mary

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995*
Category : Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
ISBN : OCLC:39352511

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The Armenian Genocide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Casper Erichsen,David Olusoga
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571269488

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The Kaiser's Holocaust by Casper Erichsen,David Olusoga Pdf

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later, the people and ideas that drove the ethnic cleansing of German South West Africa would influence the formation of the Nazi party. The Kaiser's Holocaust uncovers extraordinary links between the two regimes: their ideologies, personnel, even symbols and uniform. The Herero and Nama genocide was deliberately concealed for almost a century. Today, as the graves of the victims are uncovered, its re-emergence challenges the belief that Nazism was an aberration in European history. The Kaiser's Holocaust passionately narrates this harrowing story and explores one of the defining episodes of the twentieth century from a new angle. Moving, powerful and unforgettable, it is a story that needs to be told.

Author : Sangita Farzana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9843323599

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Forgotten War by Sangita Farzana Pdf

Author : Ariana Kabodian
Publisher : Schuler Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1948237717

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Forget Me Not by Ariana Kabodian Pdf

The Armenian Genocide of 1.5 million innocent Armenians was carried out by the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) from 1915 to 1923. This book is a recollection of experiences and stories of those Armenians who survived recalled by their descendants.Turkey denies responsibility for the Armenian Genocide, which is why it is referred to as the Forgotten Genocide. In 2019, the United States Congress voted to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, and also voted to formally reject all forms of denial accusations. Armenians around the world remember the Armenian Genocide every year on April 24th.The official symbol of the Armenian Genocide is the Forget-Me-Not Flower.

Author : Michael Bobelian
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1416557261

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Children of Armenia by Michael Bobelian Pdf

From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the “starving Armenians,” the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable were never fulfilled. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Bobelian profiles the leading players—Armenian activists and assassins, Turkish diplomats, U.S. officials— each of whom played a significant role in furthering or opposing the century-long Armenian quest for justice in the face of Turkish denial of its crimes, and reveals the events that have conspired to eradicate the “forgotten Genocide” from the world’s memory.

Author : Elissa Bemporad,Joyce W. Warren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033840

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Women and Genocide by Elissa Bemporad,Joyce W. Warren Pdf

The genocides of modern history–Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others–and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women's voices and perspectives are key to our understanding of the dynamics that emerge in the context of genocidal violence. The contributors of this volume examine how women consistently are targets for the sexualized violence that serves as an instrument of ethnic cleansing, how female perpetrators take advantage of the new power structures, and how women are involved in the struggle for justice in post-genocidal contexts. By placing women at center stage, Women and Genocide helps us to better understand the nexus existing between misogyny and violence in societies where genocide erupts.

Author : Mae M. Derdarian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000062909938

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Vergeen by Mae M. Derdarian Pdf

"This is the gripping true story of a girl's indomitable will to survive the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish government against its Armenian subjects during World War I. Through a first-hand account of Vergeen's recollections, the brutalities endured by two million Armenians come to life and are mirrored a generation later by Hitler's attack on Jews."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ben Kiernan,T. M. Lemos,Tristan S. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108640343

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The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 1, Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds by Ben Kiernan,T. M. Lemos,Tristan S. Taylor Pdf

Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the roles of racism, the state, religion, gender prejudice, famine, and climate crises, as well as the role of human decision-making in the causation of genocide. The case studies cover events on four continents, ranging from prehistoric Europe and the Andes to ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, the early Greek world, Rome, Carthage, and the Mediterranean. It continues with the Norman Conquest of England's North, the Crusades, the Mongol Conquests, medieval India and Viet Nam, and a panoramic study of pre-modern China, as well as the Spanish conquests of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Mexico.

Author : Stephen R. Graubard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351485821

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The Armenian Genocide in Perspective by Stephen R. Graubard Pdf

Seven decades after the destruction of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian genocide remains largely ignored by governments and forgotten by the world public, even though the annihilation of Armenians was headlined around the world in 1915. Scholarly investigation of the Armenian genocide is just beginning, made more difficult by the tendency of many establishment figures to rationalize the past and the attempt of perpetrator governments and their successors to deny the past.This volume is a pioneering collective attempt to assess and analyze the Armenian genocide from differing perspectives, including history, political science, ethics, religion, literature, and psychiatry. Focusing on the general implications of denial, rationalization, and responsibility, it is particularly important as a precursor to the study of the Holocaust and other genocides.

Author : Douglas W. Raymond
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : 1534717153

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Once I Was an Orphan by Douglas W. Raymond Pdf

Mark and Kevork Toroian, born in rural Turkey to an Armenian family, narrowly escaped death in the genocide of 1915-1918. They were little boys at the time. Their parents, siblings, friends, uncles, aunts, and essentially all the other Armenians in their entire town died in the massacre. One of the two survivors, Mark, wrote it all down, after he had the luck to survive and emigrate as a college student. Mark's first-person story forms the principal narrative of this book. The younger brother, Kevork, also had sufficient luck to survive the genocide, but was forced to wait in Egypt for another three decades until an Act of Congress allowed him to emigrate to join Mark in the United States. Kevork's story - a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare - is laid out here in the form of letters, not narrative. We of the succeeding generation have kept the editing to a minimum, allowing the reader to see both the genocide and the obfuscation just as they were described by the actual participants, at the time when the events actually occurred. This book is not for the faint of heart. A companion e-book with the same title is available in Kindle format.The e-book is abridged in material ways, so please use the e-book for the sake of mobility, and regard this paperback as the complete story. http: //tinyurl.com/toroian-orphan

Author : Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci
Publisher : De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 3110634295

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Reading Silences by Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci Pdf

Illuminating the unique experiences of Armenian and Turkish women both during and after genocide, this book explains why women's difficulties and strategies of survival were different to those of men. It stresses that women voices and experiences are central to the understanding of genocide and its aftermath. The author revisits the Armenian genocide in 1915 from a centenary perspective, examining the roles of women as victims, perpetrators, survivors, and those of the second generation. Drawing from personal narratives, memoirs, oral interview, literature, and historical photography this book brings together women's stories of martyrdom, trauma, and survival and those in which women took active part in genocidal violence. Engaging different modes of historical analysis, this book thus aspires to avoid two recent trends in Genocide Studies: a one-sided focus on either the perpetrators or the victims, and obsessive revolving around the notion of denial.

Author : Anja Tippner,Anna Artwińska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110630985

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Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival by Anja Tippner,Anna Artwińska Pdf

The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de mémoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective on the genre of the camp narrative.