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Recalling Memories..............................................................................................................................................83Ritualization of Past Memories...........................................................................................................................91“Ergir’s soil is strong, Ergir’s fruits are sweet, Ergir’s water is clear as the eye of a crane”..................96The Past in the Present and The Present in the Past(“My father’s name is Serob, my mother’s name is Sose”)..........................................................................99“Thanks great God, that my baby died clean, she died innocent, no Turk used her”..........................108“Their faces are not bristled, the Sultan ordered to kill boys with bristled faces”(From the story of Avetis Keshishyan)............................................................................................................112Water, Fire, Desert..............................................................................................................................................115Massacre, Slaughters, Get-away, Exodus, Deportation, Yeghern, Genocide...........................................120“They lost no less than ours, there is no doubt about it”...........................................................................122“Well, they are human too”..............................................................................................................................125To Speak or to Stay Silent, to Tell or not to Tell(“My parents were avoiding speaking about this”)......................................................................................128“I don’t know...”..................................................................................................................................................133“My dear Almast, write it down, write it down”..........................................................................................135“My father used to tell me at home”...............................................................................................................145“Our house was demolished...”.......................................................................................................................154Table of the respondents...................................................................................................................................167
ForewordThe project “Adult Education and Oral History: Contributing to Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation” waslaunched in August 2009 by the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult EducationAssociation (dvv international) in partnership with Anadolu Kültür and Armenian Centre for EthnologicalStudies “Hazarashen”, with the financial support of the German Foreign Office. The main objectiveof the project was to contribute to the reconciliation process in this region by initiating an open dialoguethrough professional oral history research.This project is an extension of the efforts of dvv international in one of its main spheres of work – adulteducation – in dealing with the past and sensitive issues in recent history. For more than fifteen years,dvv international has been engaged in contemporary witness and reconciliation work, as well as oral historyas a means to deal with the recent past. This is how the dvv international History Network, which includesa number of successful projects in various regions, was created.In Russia, the project was mainly concerned with the reconciliation between former soldiers of theGerman armed forces and the Red Army. In South Eastern Europe the focus was on interactive methodsof teaching and learning about the recent past; one of the methods used being oral history (www.historyproject.dvv international.org). In Uzbekistan, methods associated with contemporary witnesswork (world café, biographical method, interviews with contemporary witnesses) from the projectsin the Russian Federation were adapted and used for the processing of the Soviet past in CentralAsia. The Uzbek dvv international project, which took place for the fifth time last year in Tashkent,is part of the project series “History and Identity” initiated by dvv international in cooperation withDAAD, FES, GI and the German Embassy (www.istoriya.uz). The goal is to contribute to successfulawareness raising by bringing multiple perspectives about the past to the forefront.In Armenia, an Armenian-Turkish workshop was held for the first time on the topic of Oral History titledHistory and Identity - Building Bridges for Dialogue and Understanding in October 2008. Civil society representatives,historians, anthropologists and oral historians from both countries participated in the worshop.The concept for the current project was developed at that meeting and we are now pleased to share oneof its results.We would like to express our gratitude to Leyla Neyzi and Hranush Kharatyan-Araqelyan, the main scientistsfrom the two countries, the two partner organizations Anadolu Kültür and the Armenian Centrefor Ethnological Studies “Hazarashen” from Turkey and Armenia respectively, the German Academic7
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Page 5: ContentsForeword...................
Page 10 and 11: Aras, Yasin Aras, Welat Ay, Cenk Ce
Page 12 and 13: The main audience of this book is o
Page 15 and 16: “Wish they hadn’t left”:The B
Page 17 and 18: ed by 1915 and where memories of Ar
Page 19 and 20: 1915 tends to be represented by int
Page 21 and 22: Yet to a large extent, Turkish inte
Page 23 and 24: this, we can’t. It’s impossible
Page 25 and 26: een very advanced in trade and craf
Page 27 and 28: How to Come to Terms with Phantom P
Page 29 and 30: It is always you who has to be nice
Page 32 and 33: to the way he was raised: “They f
Page 34 and 35: empathize with Armenians: “My aun
Page 36 and 37: Adil is not the only one marked by
Page 38 and 39: ness may be an attempt to overcome
Page 40 and 41: dernity and the oral transmission o
Page 42 and 43: A soup pot with spoons around itAt
Page 44 and 45: What if My Mother is Armenian?Ruhi
Page 46 and 47: If I were younger I’d get baptize
Page 48: with butter. We’ll serve the impo
Page 51 and 52: The time Salih and Gavrik are worki
Page 53 and 54: Turkey’s changing context is refr
Page 55 and 56: ‘It was to be expected.’ And my
Page 57 and 58:
against one another. The feet of th
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Fear of Losing a CityZübeyde was b
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half for me.’ But what do our Mus
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e discussed when the kids were arou
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possible by the difference in relig
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The Charm of AraratMehmet is a 62-y
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dogs protected the sheep against wo
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The Story of the “Night People”
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“I don’t know why, but my grand
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Research in Armenia:“Whom to Forg
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and can generally be located in Tur
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“Whom to Forgive? What to Forgive
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“Private Stories”After the esta
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Recalling MemoriesOral history diff
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In the village of Ujan, where the v
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The home-museum of Gevork Chaush in
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Memorial in the Ashnak village dedi
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other regions are entirely populate
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sources and materials for their mem
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Ergir’s Soil is Strong, Ergir’s
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Tatevik, the granddaughterof Mihran
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eral meanings in Armenian -”whole
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The Gospel with Golden Binding of S
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keeps a copper chalice that was bro
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In some families the passports of t
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at that time, Mustafa and Jamal, wh
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People were so frightened to lose g
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naked, they were decapitating every
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Water, Fire, Desert“There was an
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his mother dragged him behind her,
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Many of our narrators mention the R
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In the word-stock of the survivors
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in Kurdish villages, and helping th
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“Well, They Are Human Too”Even
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member this well, they said, the el
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speak to each other. Questioned by
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Hamze Ptshuk, survived from Hosnut
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“I don’t Know...”Why did this
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“My Dear Almast, Write it Down, W
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took his rifle and ran. The dog fel
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she didn’t tell it to me. In the
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elder guy in this house died and hi
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AH - Turks always killed to get int
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“My Father used to Tell us at Hom
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person... I have never seen him, bu
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gotten what you knew”. So, out of
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a paid Adult Residential Facility,
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It was probably after 60s... My fat
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the Vardevar 1 day . Even if we mak
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that this wasn’t a dream... and..
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was our historical village. Nich, I
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just filming around myself with no
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that person whether I could take a
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[Turk. wife]”. In the morning I t
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4 Albert Mamikonyan,1953, in Kirova
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11 Almast Harutyunyan,1920, Ujan vi
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18 Eleonora Ghazaryan.1949, Ashnak
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26 Nairi Tajiryan,1936, Egypt (Cair
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33 Vazgen Ghukasyan,1933, Ashnak vi
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