The Agony of a People
Zabel Yesayan
Broschiertes Buch

The Agony of a People

Haig Toroyan's Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide

Herausgeber: Aktokmakyan, Maral; Boyadjian, Tamar Marie / Übersetzer: Minassian, Arakel
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Haig Toroyan's account of his journey from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir in modern-day southeastern Turkey) along the Euphrates River to Mesopotamia and Iran is a unique and hauntingly detailed account of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Recounting first the ominous final months of 1914, Toroyan is employed in Jarabalus by a sympathetic German Army Sergeant, Otto Oehlmann, as his assistant and interpreter, on a mission to transport arms to Iran. Posing as a Syrian Catholic Arab, Toroyan keeps notes on the atrocities he sees being committed against his own people but knows he cannot reveal his true eth...