Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide
by Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan Miller
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Author: Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan MillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-02-02
ISBN: 0520219562
Number of pages: 274
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: "Anatomy of Human Evil & Flickering Flames of Hope"
Summary: 4 Stars
"Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide", Donald & Lorna Miller, UC Press, CA, 1999, ISBN-13 978-0-520-212956-4, pbk 192 pgs., plus 3 Appendices 15 pgs., Notes 24 pgs., Biblio 5 pgs., Index 4 pgs., Map & 15 pgs. of B/W photos, 9" x 6"
Authored by Donald Miller, USC Prof. of Relig. & wife Lorna Miller whose parents survived the Armenian Genocide (AG) providing Armenian translation from personally conducted audio-taped interrogations with 103 (62f/41m) Armenians born in Turkey. Interviewees largely garnered from Southern California. Using "Interview Guide" as format allowed representative sampling & synthesis of queries for proper balance of content & a check for internal consistency.
Book is in 3 Parts: - I: Historical Background, II: Survivor Accounts, and III: Analysis. - but also Appendices on Methodology, Interview Guide, & Survivors Interviewed. A large portion of the material is similar in detail, very often many precise quotations, etc. of same material given in most contemporary books on AG, thusly, names, dates, places & events are validated & often same reference sources utilized extensively.
However, unlike most treatises on AG, this oral history provides a much keener, even intimate depiction of life in Anatolia before & after the massacres & genocide that details ghoulish atrocious barbaric acts of torture, killings, rape; of family dissolutions; of adopting survival techniqes occasionally working to thwart being murdered or quash a suicide. There are sundry, detailed references to acts of kindness shown by a few Turks, rarely a Kurd; but much tribute is paid to that help & hope extended by charitable organizations (for the "starving Armenians") of several countries, of missionaries & of orphanages, etc. wonderfully helpful to the child survivors. A large section devoted to emigrations, resettlements, & of survivor's responses & their moral reflections on the genocide is also unique to this book.
The photographic reproductions are flunky due to inferior paper quality. If one is bent on reading 3 or 4 books on AG, this should be one of those books because it reflects with such great clarity the horrific evils of war & genocide on infants, children, mothers & the family structure. It examines the anatomy of human evils even when the flame of hope flickered with great uncertainty.
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