Genocide and Humanitarian Relief in Aleppo -- Urban Resistance to Re-deportation -- Wartime Civilian Internment : Concentration Camps in Ottoman Syria -- Gateways to the Desert : The Sebil, Karl♯łk, and Bab Camps -- The Euphrates Line : The Meskeneh Concentration Camp -- Death and Resilience Along a Military Supply Line -- Or : 'That Immense Graveyard of our Martyrs' -- Survivng Talaat : The Network's Legacy.
Summary:
"This book is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. The book challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance to the destruction of their people"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Texts and studies in Armenian history, society, and culture
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