Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 09 մրտ, 2010 թ. - 576 էջ
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is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.
 

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Armenia 500 B C Present
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The 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Empire
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In Berlin Before the War
5
Return to Constantinople from Berlin
22
The General Condition of the Armenians at
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The Secret Messenger
49
Deportation and Escape Routes
54
Escape on the Way to AyranBaghche Vineyard
263
The Remnants of the Armenians in the Amanos Mountains
268
Signs of Imminent New Storms
272
The Treatment of the Armenians by the German Soldiers
279
The Ghosts of Ten Thousand Armenian Women in the Deserts of RasulAin
282
The Deportation and Murder of the Armenian Workers of Amanos
283
A German Nurse Goes Insane 201
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The Suffering of British Prisoners of War at KutalAmara
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The Night of Gethsemane
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Red Sunday
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The Names of the Exiles in Ayash
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The Names of the Deportees in Chankiri ལྕ t
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TO Life of the Deportees in the City
74
Plan for the Extinction of the Armenians in Turkey
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The Armenian Carnage in Ankara
82
The Tragic End of Deportee Friends in Ayash
90
The Tragic End of the Chankiri Deportees
95
The Deportation and Killing of Zohrab and Vartkes
103
The Armenians of Chankiri in the Days of Horror
106
The General Condition of the Armenians at the Beginning of 1916
117
Second Arrest and Imprisonment
122
Departure from Chankiri to Choroum
125
From Choroum to Yozgat
131
The Skulls
134
The Caravan of Death to Der Zor FebruaryApril 1916
137
The Confessions of a Slayer Captain
139
Encountering Another Caravan of the Condemned
150
The Halys River Bridge and the Bandits of the Ittihad
162
Kayseri to Tomarza
170
Tomarza to Gazbel
179
Gazbel to Hajin
184
Hajin to Sis
195
Sis to Garzbazar
204
Garzbazar to Osmaniye
216
Osmaniye to Hasanbeyli and Kanlegechid
220
The Sweet Smell of Bread
230
A Field of Mounds for Graves
240
Bad News from Der Zor
247
Escape from Islahiye to Ayran
252
The Life of a Fugitive APRIL 1916JANUARY 1919
259
In the Tunnels of Amanos
261
Escape from Baghche to Injirli
298
Escape from Amanos to Taurus
302
In the Tunnels of the Taurus Mountains
307
ConstantinopletoBaghdad Railway
308
The SelfSacrifice of the Armenian Workers of the Baghdad Railway
311
Fragments of Armenians in the Taurus Mountains
316
In the Deep Valley of Tashdurmaz
319
Life in Belemedik
322
The Deportation of Patriarch Zaven Der Yeghiayan from Constantinople to Baghdad
326
Legions of Armenian Exiles in Konya and Bozanti
331
Meeting Armenian Intellectuals on the Road to Belemedik
335
Escape from Belemedik to Adana
339
In Adana January 1917September 1918
345
The General Condition of the War at the Beginning of 1917
347
A Mysterious Patient in Adanas German Hospital
348
The Condition of the Remaining Armenians in Adana
352
The Curse of Murdered Armenian Mothers
356
The Disguised Vine Grower
357
Disappearance
368
The General Condition of the Armenians at the Beginning of 1918
370
The Turkish Army Invades the Caucasus and the Victory of the Armenians at Sardarabad
374
The Declaration of the Armenian Republic
378
The HospitalSlaughterhouse of Turkish Soldiers
380
The Battle of Arara
389
The General Massacre in Der Zor
392
Escape from the Land of Blood
398
The Longing of a Mother
404
The Allied Fleet Victoriously Enters the Turkish Capital
411
the Victors Come to Punish or to Loot?
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The General Condition of Constantinople on
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Born in 1876, Grigoris Balakian was one of the leading Armenian intellectuals of his generation. In Ottoman Turkey he attended Armenian schools and seminary; and in Germany he studied, at different times, engineering and theology. He was one of the 250 cultural leaders (intellectuals, clergy, teachers, and political and community leaders) arrested by the Turkish government on the night of April 24, 1915, and deported to the interior. Unlike the vast majority of his conationals, he survived nearly four years in the killing fields. Ordained as a celibate priest (vartabed) in 1901, he later became a bishop and prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church in southern France. He is the author of various books and monographs (some of them lost) on Armenian culture and history, including The Ruins of Ani (1910) and Armenian Golgotha, volume 1 (1922) and volume 2 (1959). He died in Marseilles in 1934.

Peter Balakian is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’ s Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize, a New York Times best seller, and a New York Times Notable Book; and of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir, also a New York Times Notable Book. Grigoris Balakian was his great-uncle.

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