Originally published in GPN, Genocide Prevention Now, Special Issue 5, Winter 2011
Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, announces the publication of Genocide Against the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor, 1912-1922 and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory.
Edited by Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis
512 pages, 37 photographs, maps ISBN 978-0-89241-615-8
Table of Contents:
Israel W. Charny:
Prologue:
The integrity and courage to recognize all the victims of a genocide:
Naming all other victims alongside one’s own people, and where necessary even acknowledging violence done by our own victim people, without defining oneself a traitor
Tessa Hofmann, Matthias Bjornlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis:
Introduction
A. Historical overview, documentation, interpretation
Tessa Hofmann:
Genoktonia en roi: Cumulative genocide
Matthias Bjornlund:
Danish sources to the destruction of the Ottoman Greeks, 1914-1916
Rachef Donef:
The role of Teskilat Mahsusa (Special Organisation) in the genocide of 1915
John Mourelos:
The 1914 persecutions of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire and the first attempt at an exchange of minorities between Greece and Turkey
Nikolaos Hlamides:
The Smyrna Holocaust: the final phase of the Greek Genocide
Matthew Stewart:
The Immediate Context of the Smyrna Catastrophe: The Peace Treaties and the Aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922
Harry J. Psomiades:
The American Near East Relief (NER) and the Megali Catastrophe in 1922
B. Representations and Law
Steven Leonard Jacobs:
Genocide of Others: Raphael Lemkin, the Genocide of the Greeks, the Holocaust, and the Present Moment
Alfred De Zayas:
The Ottoman genocide against the Greeks and other Christian minori-ties in the light of the Genocide Convention
C. Genocide education
Ronald Levitsky: Teaching the Pontian Greek Genocide?
D. Memorialization
Michel Bruneau, Kiriakos Papoulidis:
Remembering the Genocide and the ‘Unforgettable Homelands’ – the Erecting of Commemorative Monuments in Greece by the Refugees of Asia Minor
E. Conceptualization
Akis Kailaitzidis:
The Eastern Question: Genocide in Support of Nationality
Abraham Der Krikorian; Eugene Taylor:
Achieving Ever-Greater Precision in Attestation and Attribution of Geno-cide Photographs
Annex
– Eyewitness accounts
– Archival sources
– IAGS resolution
– Chronology of major events
– Glossary
– Selective bibliography
– List of contributors
– List of illustrations
– Maps
– Index