Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide

by Donald Eugene Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller

Release Date: February, 1999

Edition: Paperback

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very good book

This book is excellent.I feel very sorry for the people
of Turkish origin who claim that this never happened
or that this was the result of "Armenian terrorism"(??!!).
At least the people of Germany have done their self-criticism...

A Hidden Tragedy of the 20th Century

I never learned about the Armenian Genocide in school. I'd never heard about it until I read a book which mentioned it, sparking my curiosity enough to read this book. It's another tragic story of man's inhumanity to man. Very much like the Holocaust of WW II. The Armenians believed they were being relocated, but instead found themselves being forced to travel without food, water and sanitation. Along the way they were robbed of what few possessions they were allowed to take with them. They were tortured, raped, shot, tossed over cliffs and hurled down mountainsides. They were stripped of their clothing and forced to walk for days on end until they died from exposure to the elements. Men, women, children and the elderly were all subjected to the same obscene cruelties. The few bright spots in the book included Turks and Kurds who protected Armenians at their own expense, and Armenians who managed to survive terrible tragedies and come through it all still believing in a just God and in the essential goodness of their fellow man.