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‘H
agop Arsenian’s memoir chronicles his life and his traumatic
experience on a death march, during the Armenian genocide,
from his home in Ovajik, Ottoman Turkey in 1915 through the
long ordeal of the march through Anatolia, into the Syrian desert, and
ultimately to a new and prosperous life in Jerusalem by the 1930s. His
grand-daughter, the scholar Arda Arsenian Ekmekji, has done a superb
translation and has also made a careful, layered, scholarly edition with
her introduction, notes, maps, and photographs. Arsenian’s memoir is a
classic modern Armenian story of survival against odds, perseverance,
and rebirth.’
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