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The Armenian Genocide that began 100 years ago in April 1915 still ferociously haunts Armenians. Although hostilities between Armenians and Turks may have officially ended in 1923, its impact continues to affect deeply generations of Armenians throughout the world. Because the inheritor governments of the perpetrator state still deny the Genocide, anger and pain continue to fester.
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Quoted in T. Akçam (1997) ‘The Genocide of the Armenians and the Silence of the Turks’, in Problems of Genocide, Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Problems of Genocide’, April 21–3, Yerevan, Armenia (Toronto: The Zoryan Institute ), p. 366.
See C. A. Macartney (1930) Refugees: The Work of the League ( London: The League of Nations Union). In Chapter VI, Macartney estimates over 176,000 Armenian orphans had been gathered; however, he states, ‘there were many who could not be reached’ (p. 124).
A. Andonian (1965) The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Turkish Armenocide, Armenian Historical Research Association, Documentary Series, Volume 2, Second reprinting (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Printing Office ). Telegraph dated 18 January 1916, p. 56.
Macartney (1930), p. 123. See V. Dadrian (2003) ‘Children as Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case’, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 5 (3): 421–37. See also Chapter 7, Nabti.
T. Akçam (2006) ‘Deportation and Massacres in the Cipher Telegrams of the Interior Ministry in the Prime Ministerial Archive’, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Vol. 1 (3): 210–11.
K. D. Watenpaugh (2010) ‘The League of Nations’ Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927’, American Historical Review, Vol. 115 (5): 1315–39, (1324)
J. L. Barton (1930) Story of Near East Relief (1915–1930: An Interpretation) ( New York: The Macmillan Company ), pp. 4–6.
Sir J. H. Simpson (1939) The Refugee Problem: Report of a Survey ( London: Oxford University Press ), pp. 34–5.
Additional information on the Harpoot orphanages from this same period can be seen in G. L. Richards (ed.) (1923) The Medical Work of the Near East Relief ( New York: Near East Relief ), pp. 17–18.
A. Zaroukian (1985) Men without Childhood ( New York: Ashod Press ), p. 3.
See I. Kaprielian-Churchill (1990) ‘Armenian Refugees and their Entry into Canada, 1919–30’, Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 71 (1): 87;
I. Kaprielian-Churchill (1994) ‘Rejecting Misfits: Canada and the Nansen Passport’, International Migration Review, Vol. 28 (2): 281–306;
V. Knowles (2000) Forging our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900–77 ( Ottawa: Citizenship and Immigration Canada ), p. 76
V. Knowles (2007) Strangers at our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2006 ( Toronto: Dundurn ).
J. Apramian (2009) The Georgetown Boys (edited, revised and with an Introduction by L. Shirinian) (Toronto: The Zoryan Institute ), p. 76.
See L. Shirinian (2014) ‘So Far from Home’, in S. High, E. Little and T. Ry Duong (eds) Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media, and Performance ( Toronto: University of Toronto Press ), pp. 49–59, for a study of how an Armenian orphan dealt with surviving the Armenian Genocide.
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Shirinian, L. (2016). Orphans of the Armenian Genocide with Special Reference to the Georgetown Boys and Girls in Canada. In: Demirdjian, A. (eds) The Armenian Genocide Legacy. Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56163-3_4
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