Armen Anush's world came tumbling down when the Turkish government deported and subsequently massacred the Armenian population of his native Urfa, as part of a larger plan to exterminate the Armenian people. A boy of nine at the beginning of the genocide, he witnessed all these atrocities, before and after reaching the infamous city of Der- Zor in the Syrian desert. Surviving the carnage almost miraculously, he was raised in the orphanages of Aleppo, and went to become a distinguished educator and author.
Translated from the Armenian (Aryan Chanabarhov) by Ishkhan Jinbashian. First volume of Genocide Library of H. & K. Manjikian publications.