Armenian Golgotha

1922 memoir by Grigoris Balakian

Armenian Golgotha

Author| Grigoris Balakian
Language| Armenian
Genre| Memoir
Publisher| Vintage Books

Publication date

| 1922 & 1959
Publication place| Germany (1922), France (1959)

Published in English

| 2009
Pages| 509
ISBN| 978-1-4000-9677-0

Armenian Golgotha (Armenian: Հայ Գողգոթան) is a memoir written by Grigoris Balakian about his eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide. The memoir was released in two volumes.[1] Volume 1, about his life prior to and during the Armenian genocide, was released in 1922. Volume 2, about his life as a fugitive after the Genocide, was released in 1959. Originally published in Armenian, the memoir was later published in various languages including an English translation by Peter Balakian, Balakian's great-nephew, with Aris Sevag.[2]

## Reception

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Upon the release of the English translation in 2009, many publications reviewed the account. The New Yorker referred to the account as "a fascinating first-hand testimony to a monumental crime."[3] Elie Wiesel, the author best known for the memoir Night, referred to the account as "heartbreaking" because he believes that the memory presented by Balakian "must remain a lesson for more than one generation".[4] The New Republic praised the account as "a powerful and important book" because "it takes place as one of the key first-hand sources for understanding the Armenian genocide".[5] Writing for The Washington Post, Chris Bohjalian (a second-generation Armenian American) felt personally connected by understanding what happened to his great-grandparents. Bohjalian opined that Balakian's account was "rich with evidence of the Turkish government's complicity and its leaders' premeditation." Bohjalian also hoped that the account would be widely read.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Whittemore, Katharine (25 September 2015). "Seven books on the Armenian genocide - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
2. ^ Romano, Carlin (12 April 2010). ""Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-18" by Grigoris Balakian". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
3. ^ Davidson, Amy (4 May 2009). "Armenian Golgotha". The New Yorker. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
4. ^ "Early Praise From Elie Wiesel and Others for Grigoris Balakian's Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of The Armenian Genocide". Asbarez.com. 13 March 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
5. ^ Mazower, Mark (1 July 2009). "The Evil That Men Do". The New Republic. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
6. ^ Bohjalian, Chris (5 April 2009). "A Deadly Time Brought to Life". Washington Post. Retrieved 28 November 2017.

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Works about the Armenian genocide

Books|

| Fiction|

* The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
* Jewish response
* Gabriel Bagradian
* The Story of the Last Thought (1989)
* Skylark Farm (2004)

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Non-fiction|

* The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ("The Blue Book") (1916)
* Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (1918)
* Ravished Armenia (1918)
* The Memoirs of Naim Bey (Naim-Andonian document) (1919)
* Armenian Golgotha (1922)
* The Road from Home (1979)
* Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century (1981)
* A Problem from Hell (2002)
* America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2003)
* The Burning Tigris (2003)
* The Great Game of Genocide (2005)
* A Shameful Act (2006)
* The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2006)
* The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha (2008)
* The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (2011)
* The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2011)
* The Making of Modern Turkey (2011)
* Denial of Violence (2015)
* Goodbye, Antoura (2015)
* Operation Nemesis (2015)
* They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (2015)
* Justifying Genocide (2016)
* Killing Orders (2016)
* Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (2018)
* Dark Pasts (2018)
* The Thirty-Year Genocide (2019)
* The Great Crime: An Aintab Diary (2020)

Films|

* Ravished Armenia/The Auction of Souls (1919)
* Nahapet (1977)
* The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1982)
* Back to Ararat (1988)
* Ararat (2002)
* My Son Shall Be Armenian (2004)
* The Armenian Genocide (2006)
* Screamers (2006)
* The Lark Farm (2007)
* The Blue Book, Political Truth or Historical Fact (2009)
* Aghet – Ein Völkermord (2010)
* The Cut (2014)
* Orphans of the Genocide (2014)
* 1915 (2015)
* Map of Salvation (2015)
* The Promise (2016)
* Intent to Destroy (2017)
* They Shall Not Perish (2017)
* Aurora's Sunrise (2022)

| Accused of denialism|

* The Water Diviner (2014)
* The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

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