Goodbye, Antoura : a memoir of the Armenian genocide

Banean, Gaṛnik 1910-1989 (author.).

Summary: When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care. This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured in those years-as his people were deported from their Armenian community, as his family died in a refugee camp in the deserts of Syria, as he survived hun.

Record details

ISBN: 9780804795432
ISBN: 9780804795432
ISBN: 0804795436
ISBN: 0804796343
ISBN: 9780804796347
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations
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Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Longer versions of chapters 1-8 of this work were originally published in Armenian in 1992 under the titles Antourayi Vorpanotseh [The Orphanage of Antoura] by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society in Beirut, Lebanon, and Housher Mangoutian yev Vorpoutian [Memories of Childhood and Orphanhood] by the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon." Translated from Armenian.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Childhood -- Deportation -- The desert -- The orphanage at Hama -- The orphanage at Antoura -- The raids -- The caves -- Goodbye, Antoura -- Sons of a great nation.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 19, 2015).