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ARMENIAN RESISTANCE STORY INSPIRED WARSAW GHETTO FIGHTERS: NOTES FROM GLENDALE GENOCIDE SYMPOSIUM
Posted By: Editor Politics
http://sunroomdesk.com/2010/04/21/armenian-resistance-story-inspired-warsaw-ghetto-fighters-notes-from-glendale-genocide-symposium/
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The 40 Days of Musa Dagh first English-language edition (1934) arrived
on the Sunroom Desk as a treasured personal gift on Sunday. The very
same day, speaking at the Glendale Library's Genocide Commemoration
symposium, USC history professor Wolf Gruner cited the book as evidence
that knowledge of the Armenian Genocide was widespread in Nazi Germany.
First published in 1933, it was targeted by the Nazi regime for
its book burning campaign. Gruner reported that it was republished
in Austria in 1934 and later provided inspiration to WWII Jewish
resistance leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto. The novel is based on the
true story of an Armenian village's resistance to and escape from
Turkish forces during the genocide.
Side note: a main character in the book is a young preacher who
organizes the town's defense; his descendants now live in the Glendale
area (more in an upcoming Bookshelf post).
Insights from the other two lecturers:
"Denial of the Armenian genocide is a political issue, it is not a
historical issue. In Norway, there is no political will." - Matthias
Bjørnlund, Danish archival historian (speaking about the Scandinavian
countries' response to the genocide)
"The seizure of Armenian property, both personal and real,
was enormous, and a great impetus for people to participate in
denials...The very perpetrators of the genocide were charged with
writing its history, so of course there was denial." - Ugur Umit Ungor,
who has studied the 'desk perpetrators' of the Armenian Genocide,
the bureaucracy and organization that made it possible
The auditorium was filled to capacity for the Sunday symposium,
which highlighted the determined work of international scholars on
the subject of genocide and Man's Inhumanity to Man.
From: A. Papazian
Posted By: Editor Politics
http://sunroomdesk.com/2010/04/21/armenian-resistance-story-inspired-warsaw-ghetto-fighters-notes-from-glendale-genocide-symposium/
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The 40 Days of Musa Dagh first English-language edition (1934) arrived
on the Sunroom Desk as a treasured personal gift on Sunday. The very
same day, speaking at the Glendale Library's Genocide Commemoration
symposium, USC history professor Wolf Gruner cited the book as evidence
that knowledge of the Armenian Genocide was widespread in Nazi Germany.
First published in 1933, it was targeted by the Nazi regime for
its book burning campaign. Gruner reported that it was republished
in Austria in 1934 and later provided inspiration to WWII Jewish
resistance leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto. The novel is based on the
true story of an Armenian village's resistance to and escape from
Turkish forces during the genocide.
Side note: a main character in the book is a young preacher who
organizes the town's defense; his descendants now live in the Glendale
area (more in an upcoming Bookshelf post).
Insights from the other two lecturers:
"Denial of the Armenian genocide is a political issue, it is not a
historical issue. In Norway, there is no political will." - Matthias
Bjørnlund, Danish archival historian (speaking about the Scandinavian
countries' response to the genocide)
"The seizure of Armenian property, both personal and real,
was enormous, and a great impetus for people to participate in
denials...The very perpetrators of the genocide were charged with
writing its history, so of course there was denial." - Ugur Umit Ungor,
who has studied the 'desk perpetrators' of the Armenian Genocide,
the bureaucracy and organization that made it possible
The auditorium was filled to capacity for the Sunday symposium,
which highlighted the determined work of international scholars on
the subject of genocide and Man's Inhumanity to Man.
From: A. Papazian