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Summary: An intimate look into the life of a survivor
Review: This book is an important publication because so few textbooks address the issue of the first Holocaust of the 20th century. Vergeen's story educates the reader about the genocide Armenians and some Greeks experienced. In addition to addressing the atrocities of war, Vergeen's story expresses a silenced vernacular of hope that makes this a pertinent reading for any individual who feels alienated or isolated from their society.
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Summary: Chilling account of Genocide
Review: This book reminds us that massacres occur repeatedly in history but this was the first mass genocide orchestrated by a government. It was the dress rehearsal for World war II. Ms Derderian has captured the terror of a young girl's life experiences.
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Summary: Vergeen: A survivor of the armenian genocide
Review: This book was amazing and unbelievably real. The story is so real and exqusite that one cannot put the book down. It makes one cry, laugh, and feel anger just as the main character in the book. It is a great source of history through a little innocent girl's eyes. Every Armenian should read this book
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Summary: Young Girl's Amazing True Story of Courage and Survival
Review: This book was amazing in all aspects! This historical account from a young girl's perspective, of the atrocities suffered by the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, is truly poignant. While this true story is replete with horrific events, it should not deter anyone from reading it. Its lessons and meaning are important, and it has such an uplifting ending. Vergeen goes on to live a great life! Her courage, tenacity, and sensitivity make the book all the more touching. In addition, this memoir really allows you to get to know Vergeen, so that you really feel her anguish and then ultimately, her joy. This is a book that everyone should read! I think someone ought to make a film of this book! Vergeen is a classic 20th Century heroine. I gave this book to my 13 year old neice, who I believe really benefitted from it. She lives in such a different, and of course, easier world. She did a book report on it for school and got an 'A'. I am not Armenian, but it just does not matter. This story is so moving and profound. Most people can probably trace some kind of genocide that occurred to them or their ancestors. My Latvian mother experienced a similar nightmare at the hands of the Soviet Union when it invaded Latvia during World War II. Even if one does not have this type of experience, it is a human story, and is valuable to all.
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Summary: What's hidden beneath this story?
Review: This books tells a tragic story of 20th century. The author of the book describes all the pain the Armenian community in Eastern Anatolia suffered during the First World War. However, this book does not tell why these people have been forced to the Death March (as Armenians called) after they lived with Turks for a thousand years in peace. In fact, Orthodox Armenian community in Eastern Anatolia (there are also Protestant and Catholic Armenians) allied with Russian army and involved with terrorist attacks against Turkish population. Their aim was to have some independent territory after the war. Ottoman government has decided to relocate those people for ending these terrorist activities. The Armenians who were living in the Western Anatolia or Istanbul have not been forced to move anywhere since they were not making trouble for Ottoman Empire and they are still living in Turkey. Based on the foregoing, the relocation (the Death March as Armenians wish to call) may be deemed as a security issue or a punishment but it is impossible to talk about a "genocide". The population of past Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey is a mixture of Turks, Kurds, Lazs, Arabs, Greeks, Armenians and Jews. It is not possible to eliminate one of these elements and nobody wants to do it. If the author wants to find who is responsible for the said tragic event, she would better look for the grandsons of those Armenian militias who have attacked to the Turks on their back.
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Summary: Armenian genocide:No dout about the facts and evidences
Review: This is a very grafic snapshot of the events during the Armenian genocide which is already evidenced with the burden of proofs and personal accounts of the survivors, western political figures and missioneries of the time in Turkey.The turkish readers' reviews is a classic cookbook explanation fed to the turkish public in their public school history books which again is a testimony to the turkish governments massive struggle to censor the truth from its own people.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is an extremely well written story of courage in the face of deadly adversity. Vergeen's spirit and endurance are admirable. Unlike her unfortunate friends and family members, she survived to tell her tale. The story is horrifying but triumphant nonetheless.I am impressed with the way the author adhered to the first hand account of events without embellishment on the actions of the Ottoman Turks. It's true that the Armenians suffered under extreme oppression but Ms. Derdarian stuck to Vergeen's story thereby creating an authentic account. It makes me curious that some of the reviewers would go to such lengths to dismiss this story as propoganda. It appears like they have been conditioned to deny or obfuscate any mention of the Armenian Genocide like automatons. I'm sure they help book sales.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is an extremely well written story of courage in the face of deadly adversity. Vergeen's spirit and endurance are admirable. Unlike her unfortunate friends and family members, she survived to tell her tale. The story is horrifying but triumphant nonetheless. I am impressed with the way the author adhered to the first hand account of events without embellishment on the actions of the Ottoman Turks. It's true that the Armenians suffered under extreme oppression but Ms. Derdarian stuck to Vergeen's story thereby creating an authentic account. It makes me curious that some of the reviewers would go to such lengths to dismiss this story as propoganda. It appears like they have been conditioned to deny or obfuscate any mention of the Armenian Genocide like automatons. I'm sure they help book sales.
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Summary: Difficult to Put Down; hypnotic and horrifying at times
Review: This is one of the better books I've read in my life. What Ms. Virginia Meghrouni experienced during her young life is horrifying. I commend the author, Ms. Derdarian, for having the courage to write this book. There is, I imagine, a great deal of responsibility that goes along with accurately portraying the facts and emotions of the real people that lived through the atrocities of the Armenian genocide. Ms. Derdarian does an incredible job. I had a very difficult time putting the book down once I started reading it. Moreover, it is one of those books that is interesting and captivating from the very beginning; you don't have to yawn through a hundred pages before you get to the good stuff. Finally, this is a book that should be recommended reading in history classes across the country. It is a first-hand account of this century's first holocaust/genocide of almost half the population of Armenians in the world at that time. It is an extremely important historical event, and that it was swept under the rug by its perpetrators and forgotten by the world eventually led to the holocaust of 6 million Jews. When we forget these crimes and the ways in which they were comitted, we allow the evil forces of this world to sneak up on us and commit them all over again (Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo). Thank you Virginia Meghrouni for surviving and telling us what really happened to you, your family and 1.5 million other Armenians. Thank you Ms. Derdarian for writing such a good book.
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Summary: A survivor's gripping memories of the Armenian Genocide.
Review: This is the heart-rending, true story of a girl's indomitable will to survive the 20th century's first genocide. Through her recollections, the brutalities endured by two million Armenians during World War I come to life and are mirrored a generation later by Hitler's attack on the Jews. Destined for slaughter in the blistering Syrian desert, Vergeen and her widowed mother are deported from their home by the Ottoman Turks and forced into "death caravans" like all Armenians living in Turkey. Miraculously, during the long journey on mules and on foot, they withstand the barbaric atrocities until Vergeen is sold to an Arabic nomad. A bright and courageous teen-ager, Vergeen escapes after a year-long, intolerable existence as a Bedouin slave, eventually finding sanctuary and love in a German-Turkish railway camp. Years later, after the war, she comes to America where she is finally able to mend her young life.
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