Important Update In Armenian Electronic Library

[HOB]

3 new books has been added to the Armenian Electronic Library during the last 2 weeks.

 

1. Letters from the Scenes of the Recent Massacres in Armenia by Rendel J. Harris & Helen B. Harris

 

This is a collection of letters from a missionary couple who visited Turkish Armenia in 1896. The book was published in 1897 and is a rarity.

 

2. Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities by Edwin Munsell Bliss (1896).

 

Considered to be the most complete primary source by a Western author on the Hamidian massacres plus contains lots of information on the history of Turkey, its population and religious situation back then.

 

There are huge separate chapters on:

- Turks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/04-turks.html

- Kurds: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/05-kurds.html

- Greeks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/07-greeks.html

- Armenians: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/06-armenians.html

 

3.  Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia by Major General James G. Harbord.

 

It was presented to the U.S. Senate in 1920 and contained a detailed review of situation in Turkish Armenia and Transcaucasia after World War I.

 

I would say ‘enjoy’, but there is nothing to enjoy in those books. Pain, killings, rape, robbery, desperate people forced to convert to Islam just to save their lives. It was VERY emotionally exhausting to work on those books.

 

And special thanks to:

 

1. Aram Arkun from Clara and Grigor Zohrab Information Center (NYC) who kindly provided those books (and actually some others which I still have to put online)

 

2. Irina Minasyan, who OCR-ed and proofread them.

 

3. Taragir ( http://genocide.ru ), who pushed us to complete this work really fast (but still not fast enough to meet the deadlines he set )

 

4. Rostovci Alik who never complained while I was scanning those book 'till 4-5AM on weekdays in his Brooklyn apartment.

[Nakharar]

There are huge separate chapters on:

- Turks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/04-turks.html

- Kurds: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/05-kurds.html

- Greeks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/07-greeks.html

- Armenians: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/06-armenians.html

 

I had a look at those 4 chapters. Interesting read.

[DominO123]

"FIRE AND SWORD IN THE CAUCASUS" is the most worthwhile I think... more particularly the accounts on the chapter 14... those descriptions regarding the disturbances of 1905-1906 put to pieces Azeris claims... as from the accounts it is clear that the attacks were lunched against the Armenians.

 

Oh a note here, the "Erevan" in the Book is not the present "Yerevan," many "pieces" are not part of Armenia anymore.

[groul]

Oh a note here, the "Erevan" in the Book is not the present "Yerevan,"

You probably mean not Erivan (the town), but Erivan gubernia (province), which also included Ani and some other territories.