Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide

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Label

Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide

Title remainder

a memoir of the Armenian genocide

Statement of responsibility

Karnig Panian ; foreword by Vartan Gregorian ; translated by Simon Beugekian ; edited by Aram Goudsouzian ; introduction and afterword by Keith David Watenpaugh

Creator

• Banean, Gaṛnik, 1910-1989

Subject

• Armenian massacres survivors -- Lebanon -- Biography
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Personal narratives
• Orphans -- Lebanon | ʻAynṭūrah -- Biography
• ʻAynṭūrah (Lebanon) -- History
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Turkey
• Banean, Gaṛnik, 1910-1989 -- Childhood and youth

Genre

• Biography
• Personal narratives

Language

• eng
• arm
• eng

Summary

"When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years--as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hunger and mistreatment in the orphanage. The Antoura orphanage was another project of the Armenian genocide: its administrators, some benign and some cruel, sought to transform the children into Turks by changing their Armenian names, forcing them to speak Turkish, and erasing their history. Panian's memoir is a full-throated story of loss, resistance, and survival, but told without bitterness or sentimentality. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I."--Publisher's Web site

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

CSt/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction