This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to
understanding past and current events in the Near East. These
memoirs of an American Protestant clergyman reveal little known
aspects of major events in Asia Minor in the early twentieth
century, give valuable insights to their background, and describe
pivotal interrelationships with the western world. Those
perceptions are woven into the story of the author's protracted
genocidal experiences. Dispassionately rendered, Judgment Unto
Truth is a call for truth and justice.
In the Hamidian massacres of 1895. Jernazian, a five-year
orphan, loses two brothers. When all the Armenian Protestant clergy
of Cilicia are killed in the Young Turks' "Adana massacre" of 1909,
Jernazian answers the call to replenish the vacant pulpits. In
1915, when the "final solution to the Armenian question" is in
progress, the author, an interpreter of the Turkish government, is
in a unique position to observe the genocidal process. Afterwards,
he and his new bride work to rehabilitate destitute survivors. He
serves as liaison and advisor during the British and French
occupations (1919-21). And during the Kemalist revolution
(1921-23), Jernazian loses his remaining family and nearly his own
life. Only through a miraculous escape after twenty-one months in a
Turkish prison is he reunited with his wife, her mother, a
daughter, and a son born three months after his arrest.
An unusual blend of religious idealism and pragmatic politics,
his memoirs provide a singular emotional experience. As Vahakn
Dadrian observes in his Introduction, "This volume is a unique
document of historical significanceaThe author presents comments
and interpretations which portray him as an acute observer of
intricate events." The book will appeal to historians of the
period, educators, and professionals with an interest in the use
and abuse of state power, and specialists interested in human
behavior in extreme conditions.
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