Genocide Survivors-Aleppo Rescue House Orphans

The book in your hand deals with the rescue of Armenian women and children who were left alive after the Armenian Genocide from the houses where they were confined after 1918. The League of Nations established the Aleppo Rescue House in 1921 to find and reintegrate these women and children. A record was kept of around 1,700 children and women who came to the Rescue Home. These people who managed to survive came from almost every region of the Ottoman Empire and from very different social, political and economic environments and conditions. They were all telling about what they had experienced during and after the genocide. In the second part of the book, there are around 300 records selected from these minutes. In the first part, Dicle Akar evaluates the general breakdown of the contents of all records. While telling the story of the Aleppo Orphanage by scanning the archives and important publications of the period, Matthias Bjørnlund illuminates the entirety and background of this selection. Taner Akçam also shows the principles of the policies followed towards orphans during the genocide, based on Ottoman documents. These testimonies, recorded immediately after the genocide without being exposed to the danger of memory loss, clearly reveal the extermination policy of the Committee of Union and Progress.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 332

Size: 13 x 19

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition