Author: John Minassian
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538133717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Surviving the Forgotten Genocide
Author: John Minassian
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538133717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538133717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Survivor Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide
Author: Lorne Shirinian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Armenian Golgotha
Author: Grigoris Balakian
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400096774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgotha is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400096774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgotha is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.
Goodbye, Antoura
Author: Karnig Panian
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804796343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
“This searing account of a little boy wrenched from family and innocence” during the Armenian genocide “is a literary gem” (Financial Times). When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly a thousand Armenian and four hundred Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years—as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hunger and mistreatment in the orphanage. The Antoura orphanage was another project of the Armenian genocide: Its administrators, some benign and some cruel, sought to transform the children into Turks by changing their Armenian names, forcing them to speak Turkish, and erasing their history. Panian’s memoir is a full-throated story of loss, resistance, and survival, but told without bitterness or sentimentality. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I. Ultimately, Karnig Panian survived the Armenian genocide and the deprivations that followed. Goodbye, Antoura assures us of how humanity, once denied, can be again reclaimed.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804796343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
“This searing account of a little boy wrenched from family and innocence” during the Armenian genocide “is a literary gem” (Financial Times). When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly a thousand Armenian and four hundred Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years—as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hunger and mistreatment in the orphanage. The Antoura orphanage was another project of the Armenian genocide: Its administrators, some benign and some cruel, sought to transform the children into Turks by changing their Armenian names, forcing them to speak Turkish, and erasing their history. Panian’s memoir is a full-throated story of loss, resistance, and survival, but told without bitterness or sentimentality. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I. Ultimately, Karnig Panian survived the Armenian genocide and the deprivations that followed. Goodbye, Antoura assures us of how humanity, once denied, can be again reclaimed.
Survivors
Author: Donald E. Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520219562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"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
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520219562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"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
Under the Shadow of Death
Author: Garabed Hagop Aaronian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989901741
Category : Armenian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989901741
Category : Armenian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Vergeen
Author: Mae M. Derdarian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"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.
Proud Son of Hadjin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692537497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Proud Son of Hadjin" is the memoir of Asadour Chalian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692537497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Proud Son of Hadjin" is the memoir of Asadour Chalian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide.
The Knock at the Door
Author: Margaret Ahnert
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 0825305535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as the Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder. In this riveting book, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother Ester's terrifying experiences as a young woman during this period of hatred and brutality. At age 15, Ester was separated from her family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met, and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and emigrated to America. Ahnert's compelling account of her mother's suffering is framed by an intimate portrait of her relationship with her 98-year-old mother. Ester's inspiring stories, told lovingly by her daughter, will give you a window into the harrowing struggle of Armenians during a terrible period in human history.
Publisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN: 0825305535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as the Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder. In this riveting book, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother Ester's terrifying experiences as a young woman during this period of hatred and brutality. At age 15, Ester was separated from her family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met, and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and emigrated to America. Ahnert's compelling account of her mother's suffering is framed by an intimate portrait of her relationship with her 98-year-old mother. Ester's inspiring stories, told lovingly by her daughter, will give you a window into the harrowing struggle of Armenians during a terrible period in human history.
Betrayed Armenia
Author: Diana Agabeg Apcar
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In 'Betrayed Armenia,' the Armenian writer and humanitarian Diana Abgar presented an accurate report of the Armenian massacres. The massacre took place in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in April 1909. The slaughter of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Muslims in the city of Adana amid the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 grew into a series of violent anti-Armenian riots throughout the province. As a result, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 people were killed in Adana and surrounding towns, mainly Armenians. In this valuable work, Abgar excellently describes the reasons for the inhumane killings, the evidence against the responsible parties, and many more unknown facts about the events. It's an insightful work and a must-read for anyone interested in knowing the history of Armenia.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In 'Betrayed Armenia,' the Armenian writer and humanitarian Diana Abgar presented an accurate report of the Armenian massacres. The massacre took place in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in April 1909. The slaughter of Armenian Christians by Ottoman Muslims in the city of Adana amid the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 grew into a series of violent anti-Armenian riots throughout the province. As a result, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 people were killed in Adana and surrounding towns, mainly Armenians. In this valuable work, Abgar excellently describes the reasons for the inhumane killings, the evidence against the responsible parties, and many more unknown facts about the events. It's an insightful work and a must-read for anyone interested in knowing the history of Armenia.