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The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an open wound Paperback – October 2, 2016

by Theodora Ioannidou (Author)
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Does injustice have an expiration date? Is it possible to wipe the slate clean of crimes of such magnitude, simply because the victims who suffered them are long dead? What stance is civilized humanity obliged to take towards Turkey, who denies the fact that the actions they perpetrated against Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrians amount to genocide? Does not the absence of severe world condemnation entail a share in the guilt? If responsibility is neither attributed nor admitted regarding the butchery of entire peoples on the fringes of Europe in the opening decades of the 20th century, then political expediency has corrupted the very meaning of justice in the world. What obligation do we citizens of the world have in such a case? In the house of the hanged man, we must examine the rope. And we must pursue the crime, so that no one will again dare to set up the gallows.
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    October 2, 2016
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    6.69 x 0.8 x 9.61 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    9609384439
  6. ISBN-13
    978-9609384438
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well written book that helped me to understand the people of the genocide
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020
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My father was a survivor of the Greek Genocide in Turkey. Although he was an Anatolian Greek, the story of the repression of the Pontian Greeks also told his story. It is a most significant book for me to understand my father's story on a psychological level of what it must have been like to be a child and experience the horror. It is also a significant book for history. Thank you, Theordora, for writing this important book. It gives me inspiration to re-write my father's memoirs.
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Rick
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017
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Most people have heard about the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Much less well known is the genocide, during and after World War I, of ethnic Greeks whose ancestors settled in what is now Turkey more than 2000 years ago. This is an important book. It documents the Greek genocide through life histories of an extended family that lived near the southern coast of the Black Sea. Each chapter tells the story of one family member, supported by photographs that bring the past to life. The anguish of these victims is all the more poignant because those that survived were fearful or reluctant to speak about the atrocities they experienced, leaving it to a determined descendant to speak in their name. (Ironically, the descendants of Greeks who suffered so much in 1915-1922 have offered great generosity to current mideastern refugees.) Smoothly translated from the original Greek.
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War baby
5.0 out of 5 stars The Pontian Greeks and their attempted extermination by the Turks
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
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This collection of stories about the Pontian Greeks is an eye opener! I was struck by the detailed lives of these people and most importantly, the hardships, torture and so many deaths at the hands of the Turks. So many families were torn apart and family members exterminated! The suffering of these innocent people is carefully researched and presented for the reader.
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Jim
4.0 out of 5 stars My Ordu,Turkey connection
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2021
Many thanks to the author for clarifying years of questions about my Greek grandparents who came through Ellis Island in 1924. They were from Ordu, Turkey a city on the Black Sea. They were Greek Orthodox Christians who spoke a dialect of Ancient Greek and Turkish. My yaya spoke about some of the atrocities of her youth which included being exiled to Russia as a teenager for two years. She said the Turkish soldiers ripped her diamond earrings from her ears and stole everyone's jewelry. I'm not sure how they got back to their homeland but they must have because they stayed several more years before leaving for the U. S . My mother, Angeline, was born in the U. S. in 1925. Uunfortunately, neither my grandparents nor my mother ever returned to Ordu to visit their families. I think my grandmother was too afraid to return. She was scared about what she might or might not find. My grandparents both died fairly young and I wish I had asked them more questions about their past. I am slowly piecing together the details and I hope to obtain more information from their Greek Orthodox Church in Michigan. Again, thank you for this well written and at times gut wrenching historical book. I hope to return to my grandparents' homeland someday! Cindy H (GR, Michigan)
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Sis
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019
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This is so nicely written and translated. Filled with powerful and emotional stories. A real eye opener.
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Grkguy
5.0 out of 5 stars Slaughter
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2018
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Excellent book about a genocide that has not been written about enough and needs to be heard. This should be taught in schools.
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Z.
5.0 out of 5 stars Not In Mainstream History Books
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017
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Finally! A book that fills the gap in the publication of historical documents on the Pontian genocide. These are not stories about just one family but about every Pontian, about every person who thirsts for justice. Eleven heartrending testimonies, each one including yet more victims of the Turkish slaughter within the respective extended family. This is a meticulously documented collection of painful truths not soon forgotten.
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Elefterios T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017
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Amazing!!!
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T S
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding and insightful.
Reviewed in Australia on July 6, 2019
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Outstanding and insightful.
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Nikos
5.0 out of 5 stars Memory will save us
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2017
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I am anglo greek living in bulgaria. I knew about our tragedy of asia minor to run ali
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I am anglo greek living in Bulgaria. I knew well the blood drenched history of the Armenian genocide by the turks and the mass slaughter of the greeks of asia minor ,modern day turkey. Yet I only vaguely knew about the Pontian Greeks of the Black Sea region of modern turkey, ,reminded every now and again by echoes of their land in names of settlements in greece and their classical origined greek .

We live today at a crucial time when much of the events of world wars seem forgotten with so-called alternative facts , known really as lies , and denial of memory , now paraded as fact and a letting go of past. A few weeks ago holocaust day was commemorated with Trump not even mentioning the jews let alone other races . The Pontians never are even known .
HITLER once said who will remember the armenians , he probably never ever knew about the
Pontian greeks .and the Rwandian holocaust in the future to add to his blood stained years. How ironic that german influence behind the pontian tragedy too.

This book is all the more immediate because it is written not as a dry statistic but as a memory of families and people with names and faces and detailed stories of a depth of suffering to make one weep.
Words today such as holocaust are abused and their meaning degraded. All races and nations including mine , both , can commit crime and wrong as we see that from he americans in iraq , . But holocast is when a nation , a government , decides to systematically slaughter another people until they do not exist .
Turkey has the honour of belonging to this group of nations as germany . The difference being that while germany has come face to face with its past ,turkey , and never so more as the turkey of erdogan , heading back to where they started , has denied and lives in denial of what it did ..This is sad for the turks also because in he collapse of their ottoman empire they too suffered, although never were they subjected to what they subjected the christians of Balkan region and turkey to . If turkey were to recognise its past , then we all in common humanity can come together. Finally as in Syria today the positive saving role of russia is seen and the cynical role of uk and france and usa , the heroic effort of many of its citizens not withstanding.
A timely book, written with emotion and understanding and pain and highly recommended . Its belief in ultimate right and wrong and good and evil, runs against the liberal denial of such as relative . BUT maybe it is this denial and death of memory that has got us to where we are today .
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Mr T A Empeslidis
5.0 out of 5 stars A magnificent book about the Pontian Greek Genocide
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2022
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I have been carried away by the book and the author Theodora Ioannidou is doing a terrific job in giving a spectacular account of the Historical events that took place about 100 years ago in the Greek Pontos. I highly recommend the book to all Pontian Greeks and those who are interested in learning some of the darkest parts of modern history and understand a lot about current historical events!
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