Where Are They Now? The Last of the Survivors
Monday, 30 April 2001
By Laurence Ritter Today, the youngest living survivor of the Armenian Genocide is about 90 years old. They are grandparents and great-grandparents who survived the genocidal days at the beginning of the 20th century as little children. Over the last three decades, many told their stories for posterity on audio tape or video tape, in different communities
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Vahakn Dadrian: One Scholar’s Pursuit of Historical Justice
Friday, 31 December 1999
By Henry R. Hattenbach In a very real sense, Professor Vahakn Dadrian is a lone warrior in the oft-frustrating struggle to have the Armenian genocide recognized as history. Not that Dadrian is the sole scholar of this genocide that ushered in the 20th century, tirelessly grappling with those denying its historicity. Professor Richard Hovannisian immediately springs to mind. Yet
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Man of the Year: The Lone Crusader; Peter Balakian; A Poet’s Political Coming of Age
Thursday, 31 December 1998
By Mark Arax It was the spring of 1997 and Peter Balakian, the author of four collections of poetry, was about to launch his first big book. He felt the unease that any author feels knowing that his baby, now in the hands of marketers and reviewers, was no longer his own. That the book,
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