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Genocide by the front door
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It is astounding what the Armenian Professor of German Studies Dora Sakayan has brought to light from the Swiss Archive for Contemporary History: The railway engineer Fritz Sigrist and his wife Clara not only witnessed the brutal persecutions and killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, but also actively fought against it.
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Remembrance of a Genocide
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Germans were also involved in the Armenian Genocide. A new book is now providing an eyewitness account of the vicious crimes committed 100 years ago. And even the Deutsche Bank played an important role in it.
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Lest We Forget
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Dora Sakayan has deciphered the eye-witness account of Clara Sigrist-Hilty and her husband, who lived in Eastern Switzerland. The couple witnessed the deportations of Armenians between 1915 and 1918.
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Witnesses of the Armenian Genocide
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The written testimonies of Clara and Fritz Sigrist-Hilty from Werdenberg on the Armenian Genocide during WWI have been published. Last evening the book was launched.
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Eastern Armenian for the English-speaking World
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For Armenologists in and outside Armenia, Dora Sakayan does not need introduction. She is the author of several Armenological studies, and the present textbook, Eastern Armenian for the English-speaking World, is the sister edition of an earlier textbook of hers, Modern Western Armenian for the English-speaking World. Published in Montreal, Canada, in 2000, this manual was very well received all over the world.
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To Sustain a Language
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Every effort to preserve the Armenian language in the Diaspora is welcome. Dora
Sakayan’s, in the form of her ‘Modern Western Armenian’ text-book is particularly so.
Nowhere in the Diaspora is Armenian an everyday language anymore, the way it
used to be in Lebanon for example. To secure and fashion their lives in the Diaspora
Armenians have to employ the dominant local language, their own acquiring secondary,
and for the vast majority almost exclusively domestic use...
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Review of Dora Sakayan's Modern Western Armenian
for the English Speaking World.
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Who wants to learn Armenian? – In the first place, probably second and third generation Armenians born in the diaspora, also
language historians interested in Armenian and Indo-European linguistics and scholars doing research on the early period of
the Christian Churches in the Middle East, and perhaps a few undergraduates who will choose to fulfill their language requirements
with something other than the regular Western European languages. Whatever their motivation, all these students will be grateful
to Professor Sakayan for the excellent manual that is now available to them for acquiring proficiency in West Armenian...
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Grandfather honoured in act of remembrance
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Smyrna, a coastal city on the Aegean as old Troy, has been one of the
major centres of Asia Minor for millennia. Today, under the name of
Izmir, it belongs to Turkey, but at various times in its 5,000-year
history it has had Greek, Macedonian and Roman masters. According to
local tradition, Homer was born in its environs; it was also one of
the earliest seats of Christianity. More recently, a tragedy of vast
proportions has strained the city's name. In her book, an Armenian Doctor
in Turkey, Dora Sakayan presents an eyewitness account of the 75-year-old catastrophe in
which several members of her family perished along with 30,000 Greek
and Armenian Christians at the hands of Turkish nationalist forces...
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