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eBook available Published February 2026
Lives in Fragments

Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide

Yetkin, E., Maksudyan, N. & Çelik, A. (Eds.)

An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence. 

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2024
Courage and Compassion

A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

Molho, T.

Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published June 2021
Do Not Forget Me

Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto

Saltiel, L. (ed)

Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History

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eBook available Published May 2017
Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)

While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published February 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Shirinian, G. N. (ed)

From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published November 2016
The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Sjöberg, E.

After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published April 2016
Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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