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PRESS RELEASE
Karekin Dickran
kd@Lovedom.org
New Book in Danish:
Danish Witnesses to The
Armenian Genocide 1915
ISBN 978-87-7695-140-5
This book released in november 2009 is a comprehensive attempt by the
author, Helle Schøler Kjær and journalist at the Danmarks Radio, to write
a popular history about testimonies of three Danish witnesses to the
Armenian genocide. A creditable and easy readable book aimed to educate
the Danish public in general as well as the members of the Danish
government and an important step to combat the Turkish denial of the
Armenian Genocide.
The book titled: ³Danish Witnesses to The Armenian Genocide 1915², by
publishing house Vandkunsten, sheds light on the three Danes reports,
accounts and the diaries of the Danish Missionary Maria Jacobsen who was
stationed at Harpoot/Mezreh, 1907-1919 and watched the persecutions of
Armenians and provided clandestine relief up to 5,000 Armenian, widows and
orphans. The second source is Karen Jeppe´s witnesses, stationed at Ourfa
by the German Orientmission and later in Aleppo, the entire chapter is
about rescue and resistance also her biography. A chapter is dedicated to
the Danish envoy Carl Ellis Wandell´s writings, and who state the fact
that the sole intention of deportations is to annihilate all Armenian
nation from their historic homeland, planned and executed by the Turkish
government.
Helle Schøler Kjær has put substantial emphasis upon many citations from
Maria Jacobsen, Karen Jeppe and Carl Ellis Wandel´s writings, that leaves
no doubts about the intentions of the Turkish government when they
described the deportations to the Syrian desert. Their unanimous
conclusion is: ³Extermination of the Armenian People.² There are a range
of passages from Maria Jacobsen´s diaries and Carl Ellis Wandel´s reports
that describe the atrocities, mass executions during the deportations that
were all well organized and took place with official sanction and
calculated state policy.
Most of the source materials of the book are preserved in Danish State
Archives, with valuable eye witness accounts and firsthand information's
in real time that sheds good light upon; what really happened to the
Armenians within the Ottoman Empire. The book contains relevant
information's, researched by the historian Matthias Bjørnlund who had his master
thesis on the Armenian Genocide, particularly the invaluable
insight of the Danish envoy Carl Ellis Wandel reports to the Danish
government about his insight into the Armenian Genocide while it unfolded.
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's accounts is included to cast more light into
his reports to the American government which corresponds to the accounts
of the three Danish witnesses. Pages are displayed with photo materials
and about the background of WW1 I and the history of Armenia, and the
trials and few punishment of the perpetrators of the Crime against
humanity. The main source is "The Turkish Military Tribunal's Prosecution
of the Authors of the Armenian Genocide: Four Major Court-Martial Series,"
valuable passages from the research materials of Vahakn N. Dadrian Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago, Professor of Sociology at the State
University of New York, Geneseo, and the director of a large genocide
study. The last chapter is about the founder of the Turkish republic
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his acknowledgment about the crimes of Young
Turk Party, the Committee of Union and Progress.
Links
http://www.dr.dk/P1/Serier/DetArmenskeFolkeMord
http://www.dr.dk/P1/Reportagen/Udsendelser/2009/10/16114252.htm
http://www.folkedrab.dk/sw50054.asp
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkemordet_på_armenerne
Publishing House, Vandkunsten
http://www.forlagetvandkunsten.dk/108748/
info@forlagetvandkunsten.dk
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