Survivors - An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide

Informationen zum Autor Donald E. Miller is Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and the author of Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium (California, 1997). Lorna Touryan Miller is Director of the Office for Creative Connections at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. Her parents survived the Armenian genocide. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung Through a collection of interviews with elderly Armenians who survived the conflict, this study describes the genocidal campaign mounted by the Turks between 1915 and 1923, during which over 1 million Armenians died. Interviewees describe the break-up of their homes and post-war life in orphanages. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1. Remembrances of a Forgotten Genocide 2. The Historical and Political Context of the Genocide PART II: SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS 3. Life and Politics Before the Deportations 4. The Deportation Marches 5. The Experience of Women and Children 6. Orphanage Life and Family Reunions 7. Emigration and Resettlement PART III: ANALYSIS 8. Survivor Responses to the Genocide 9. Moral Reflections on the Genocide Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Interview Guide Appendix C: Survivors Interviewed Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Donald E. Miller, Donald E. Miller Miller, Donald Eugene Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller, Miller Lorna Touryan, Miller/Miller
• Assisted by: Donald E. Miller (Editor), Lorna Touryan Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.1999
• EAN: 9780520219564
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21956-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Oral History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Turkey, Second World War, The Holocaust, Asian History, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front