Jail To Jail: Autobiography of a Survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 059532536X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He attended the American theological Seminary in Marash and went on to serve the Armenian Communities of Greece and the Middle East as a touring preacher. He settled in Beirut, Lebanon, as a refugee, and passed away in 1958. About the Author Hagop Der Garabedian was born in 1881 in Marash, in the Ottoman Empire, and survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
He witnessed and heard about the gruesome mass atrocities against men, women, and children during his journey.After being set free, he was recaptured and sent to die in labor battalions with thousands of other Armenian men. Jail to Jail is the personal account of an Armenian soldier in the Ottoman army during the First World War who survived the genocide of his people. He endured constant beatings, hunger, torture, humiliation, and endless walks in shackles. Ending up in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, he served the destitute refugee Armenian communities of the Middle East as a touring preacher.. He survived by the sheer force of his faith, the kindness of strangers, and by giving of himself to those who were physically and spiritually more needy than he was.After the war, he returned to the ruins of Marash, then found and married his fiancé, only to escape to Athens after Turkish Kemalist forces attacked the French occupiers and harassed the repatriated Armenians. Accused of desertion while on medical leave in the summer of 1915, he was dragged form one prison cell to another for three years on his way form Marash, Turkey, to Mosul, Iraq, where he was set free
He settled in Beirut, Lebanon, as a refugee, and passed away in 1958. He attended the American theological Seminary in Marash and went on to serve the Armenian Communities of Greece and the Middle East as a touring preacher. Hagop Der Garabedian was born in 1881 in Marash, in the Ottoman Empire, and survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
An important legacy My great grandfather had similar experiences in Ottoman Turkey, being drafted into the Turkish army as a doctor, and then being forced to flee the ensuing genocidal massacre.This memoir is an important piece of Armenian history that should be coveted, and is also an important piece of evidence, despite those who would deny the ev