Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armenians, Donald and Lorna Miller give the forgotten genocide the hearing it deserves. Survivors raise important issues about genocide and about how people cope with traumatic experience. Much here is wrenchingly painful, yet it also speaks to the strength of the human spirit.
Donald E. Milleris Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and the author ofReinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium(California, 1997).Lorna Touryan Milleris Director of the Office for Creative Connections at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. Her parents survived the Armenian genocide.
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
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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