Armenian Golgotha A Memoir of the Armenian

On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinoplers"s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empirers"s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey-a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgothais Balakianrs"s devastating eyewitness account-a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.

Born in 1876, Grigoris Balakian was one of the leading Armenian intellectuals of his generation. In Ottoman Turkey he attended Armenian schools and seminary; and in Germany he studied, at different times, engineering and theology. He was one of the 250 cultural leaders (intellectuals, clergy, teachers, and political and community leaders) arrested by the Turkish government on the night of April 24, 1915, and deported to the interior. Unlike the vast majority of his conationals, he survived nearly four years in the killing fields. Ordained as a celibate priest (vartabed) in 1901, he later became a bishop and prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church in southern France. He is the author of various books and monographs (some of them lost) on Armenian culture and history, including The Ruins of Ani (1910) and Armenian Golgotha, volume 1 (1922) and volume 2 (1959). He died in Marseilles in 1934.

Peter Balakian is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’ s Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize, a New York Times best seller, and a New York Times Notable Book; and of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir, also a New York Times Notable Book. Grigoris Balakian was his great-uncle.

Map: Armenia, 500 B.C.-Present	p. x
Introduction	p. xiii
Map: The 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Empire	p. xxx
Chronology	p. xxxiii
Translator's Note	p. xliii
The Life of an Exile July 1914-April 1916
July-October 1914
In Berlin Before the War	p. 5
In Berlin	p. 10
Return to Constantinople from Berlin	p. 22
The First Deportation, April 1915-February 1916
The General Condition of the Armenians at the Beginning of 1915	p. 31
The First Bad News from Cilicia: The Secret Messenger	p. 49
Map: Deportation and Escape Routes	p. 54
The Night of Gethsemane	p. 56
Red Sunday	p. 58
Toward a Place of Exile: The Names of the Exiles in Ayash	p. 61
Life in Chankiri Armory: The Names of the Deportees in Chankiri	p. 68
Life of the Deportees in the City	p. 74
Plan for the Extinction of the Armenians in Turkey	p. 77
The Armenian Carnage in Ankara	p. 82
The Tragic End of Deportee Friends in Ayash	p. 90
The Tragic End of the Chankiri Deportees	p. 95
The Deportation and Killing of Zohrab and Vartkes	p. 103
The Armenians of Chankiri in the Days of Horror	p. 106
The General Condition of the Armenians at the Beginning of 1916	p. 117
Second Arrest and Imprisonment	p. 122
Departure from Chankiri to Choroum	p. 125
From Choroum to Yozgat	p. 131
From Yozgat to Boghazliyan: The Skulls	p. 134
The Second Deportation: The Caravan of Death to Der Zor, February-April 1916
The Confessions of a Slayer Captain	p. 139
Encountering Another Caravan of the Condemned	p. 150
From Boghazliyan to Kayseri: The Halys River Bridge and the Bandits of the Ittihad	p. 162
Kayseri to Tomarza	p. 170
Tomarza to Gazbel	p. 179
Gazbel to Hajin	p. 184
Hajin to Sis	p. 195
Sis to Garzbazar	p. 204
Garzbazar to Osmaniye	p. 216
Osmaniye to Hasanbeyli and Kanle-gechid	p. 220
Hasanbeyli to Islahiye: The Sweet Smell of Bread	p. 230
Islahiye: A Field of Mounds for Graves	p. 240
Bad News from Der Zor	p. 247
Escape from Islahiye to Ayran	p. 252
The Life of a Fugitive April 1916-January 1919
In the Tunnels of Amanos
Escape on the Way to Ayran-Baghche (Vineyard)	p. 263
The Remnants of the Armenians in the Amanos Mountains	p. 268
Signs of Imminent New Storms	p. 272
The Treatment of the Armenians by the German Soldiers	p. 279
The Ghosts of Ten Thousand Armenian Women in the Deserts of Ras-ul-Ain	p. 282
The Deportation and Murder of the Armenian Workers of Amanos	p. 283
Bloodshed on the Way from Baghche to Marash: A German Nurse Goes Insane	p. 291
The Suffering of British Prisoners of War at Kut-al-Amara	p. 294
The Program of Forced Islamization: Escape from Baghche to Injirli	p. 298
In the Forests of Injirli: Escape from Amanos to Taurus	p. 302
In the Tunnels of the Taurus Mountains
Map: Constantinople-to-Baghdad Railway	p. 308
The Self-Sacrifice of the Armenian Workers of the Baghdad Railway	p. 311
Fragments of Armenians in the Taurus Mountains	p. 316
In the Deep Valley of Tashdurmaz	p. 319
Life in Belemedik	p. 322
The Deportation of Patriarch Zaven Der Yeghiayan from Constantinople to Baghdad	p. 326
Legions of Armenian Exiles in Konya and Bozanti	p. 331
Meeting Armenian Intellectuals on the Road to Belemedik	p. 335
Escape from Belemedik to Adana	p. 339
In Adana, January 1917-September 1918
The General Condition of the War at the Beginning of 1917	p. 347
A Mysterious Patient in Adana's German Hospital	p. 348
The Condition of the Remaining Armenians in Adana	p. 352
The Curse of Murdered Armenian Mothers	p. 356
The Natural Beauty of Cilicia: The Disguised Vine Grower	p. 357
The Clerk of the Office: Disappearance	p. 368
The General Condition of the Armenians at the Beginning of 1918	p. 370
The Turkish Army Invades the Caucasus, and the Victory of the Armenians at Sardarabad	p. 374
The Declaration of the Armenian Republic	p. 378
The Hospital-Slaughterhouse of Turkish Soldiers	p. 380
The Victorious British Army Occupies Damascus: The Battle of Arara	p. 389
The National Vow of the Turks to Exterminate the Surviving Armenians: The General Massacre in Der Zor	p. 392
Escape from the Land of Blood	p. 398
The Disguised German Soldier Toward Constantinople: The Longing of a Mother	p. 404
Armistice: The Allied Fleet Victoriously Enters the Turkish Capital	p. 411
Did the Victors Come to Punish, or to Loot?	p. 416
The General Condition of Constantinople on the Eve of the Armistice	p. 421
Irrevocable Departure from Turkey: From Constantinople to Paris	p. 430
Acknowledgments	p. 435
Glossary	p. 437
Biographical Glossary	p. 441
Appendix: Author's Preface	p. 453
Map: Treaty of Sèvres	p. 458
Notes	p. 461
Bibliography	p. 469
Index	p. 483
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Armenian Golgotha A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918

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