The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, harrowing
testimonies by grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Turkey's
"forgotten Armenians"--the orphans adopted and Islamized by Muslims
after the Armenian genocide. Through them we learn of the tortuous
routes by which they came to terms with the painful stories of
their grandparents and their own identity. The postscript offers a
historical overview of the silence about Islamized Armenians in
most histories of the genocide.
When Fethiye cetin first published her groundbreaking memoir in
Turkey, My Grandmother, she spoke of her grandmother's hidden
Armenian identity. The book sparked a conversation among Turks
about the fate of the Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia in 1915. This
resulted in an explosion of debate on Islamized Armenians and their
legacy in contemporary Muslim families.
The Grandchildren (translated from Turkish) is a follow-up to My
Grandmother, and is an important contribution to understanding
survival during atrocity. As witnesses to a dark chapter of
history, the grandchildren of these survivors cast new light on the
workings of memory in coming to terms with difficult pasts.
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