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From: Benita Strnad <bstrnad>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:20:41 -0500
There have been many books mentioned in this discussion but there are two important books that have been overlooked.
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. Dorling Kindersly. 2000 Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian. Greenwillow. 1979
Both books are about the Armenian Massacres in Turkey. These massacres are just as controversial as is the Shoah in Europe. There are many many people who still deny that this ever happened and it is only recently that the Turkish government has begun to acknowledge the genocide.
Bagdasarian's book is particularly powerful. A few years ago I had a student who read Forgotten Fire as a class assignment and he was astonished by what he read. He wanted to know if it was true. To help him understand the historical setting I recommended he watch the excellent PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. It explains in great detail the role of Turkey in WWI and how the seeds of religious and ethnic hatred were nurtured by WWI all across Europe. This goes a long way in explaining WWII and the events in the Balkans as well as sectarian violence across Europe.
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:20:41 -0500
There have been many books mentioned in this discussion but there are two important books that have been overlooked.
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. Dorling Kindersly. 2000 Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian. Greenwillow. 1979
Both books are about the Armenian Massacres in Turkey. These massacres are just as controversial as is the Shoah in Europe. There are many many people who still deny that this ever happened and it is only recently that the Turkish government has begun to acknowledge the genocide.
Bagdasarian's book is particularly powerful. A few years ago I had a student who read Forgotten Fire as a class assignment and he was astonished by what he read. He wanted to know if it was true. To help him understand the historical setting I recommended he watch the excellent PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. It explains in great detail the role of Turkey in WWI and how the seeds of religious and ethnic hatred were nurtured by WWI all across Europe. This goes a long way in explaining WWII and the events in the Balkans as well as sectarian violence across Europe.
-- Benita Strnad Curriculum Materials Librarian McLure Education Library The University of Alabama Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafon author of Shadow of the WindReceived on Mon 24 Apr 2006 09:20:41 AM CDT
