Margaret Ajemian Ahnert

The author chronicles discussions with her mother, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Her mother recounts her childhood in Turkey before and during, and after the massacres of 1915. All the discussion take place in her mother's Armenian nursing home.

This is a riveting firsthand account of the systematic, rushed and brutal extermination process. The men are taken first and never heard from again. Then the woman, children and elderly are sent on what becomes a death march as they show more are randomly attacked by different ethnic militias. Her mother survives to live through a series of pretty horrible circumstance until she is finally able to emigrate. There are about five pages from the death march that are permanently seared in my memory; one of the most powerful sequences I've read. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in the history of the Armenian genocide. show less

Read this, if you are at all intrigued by history, but the struggles people face and how they over come them. If you want to feel a passion about gross injustices in this world, and to learn about them - they happen, and the more I read the more I learn that it has happened over and over and over again ... and most of the time, we turn out attention away, pretend it's not happening and go on with our lives. Sad. And something I want to learn about - because maybe the more we learn about it, show more the more power we will have to stop it? show less

Paperback edition 2014, signed by the Author.