Tadem, my father's village : extinguished during the 1915 Armenian genocide /
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| Author / Creator: | Kaloosdian, Robert Aram, author. |
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| Imprint: | Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2015. |
| Description: | xvii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10271975 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Tadem
- 1. Searching for Tadem
- 2. The Shadows of Memory on a Tadem Childhood
- 3. The 1895 Plunder and Massacre
- 4. Gaspa's Journey: Taking a Chance on America
- 5. The Tadem Educational Society
- 6. A New Word: Hurriyet
- 7. Garabed:an Unlettered Soldier in the Great War
- 8. Kevork and the Oxcarts: Requisition and Exhaustion
- 9. The Search for Guns and the Pretext for Disarming Tadem
- 10. "To Young to Kill": The arrest and Execution of Tedem's Manhood
- 11. Deportation of the women of Tadem
- 12. Lucia's Unimaginable Misfortune
- 13. Boghos Avoids Deportation
- 14. Saroutsna Sevkiat: The Massacre of the Remnants
- 15. Slaves in a Vanishing Village
- 16. In Mezre Prison Once Again
- 17. Cursed and Threatened: Boghos's Flight to Mezre
- 18. The Remnants' Resignation and Hafiz's Remorse
- 19. Nishan Murdered, Despite the American Consul's Brave Efforts
- 20. A Final Witness: Nectar Vanetzian's Story
- Photo Section
- Part I. Bogho's Journey to America
- 21. Throuh the Dersim Mountains and Our of the Turkish Grasp.
- 22. Erzinjan: An Uncertain Refuge
- 23. Retreat Through Chaos and Revolution
- 24. Up the Volga by Steamship
- 25. The Endless Trans-Siberian Raiway
- 26. Yokohama to Seattle: A Transpacific Journey
- Part III. Life in America
- 27. Crossing the Vastness of America
- 28. The Early Days
- 29. Badashan and Ovan Rescued
- 30. The Foundry
- 31. The Club
- 32. The Great Hurricane of 1938
- 33. Finding Tadem
- 34. Postsript:The Destinies of Radem's Survivors
- Appendix A. Key Dates in the Lives of Tadem Villagers
- Appendix B. Tadem's Gamavors
- Appendix C. Women of Tadem Who Survived the July 1915 Deportation
- Appendix D. Hovanes' Partisan Defenders
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
