Towards Golgotha: The Memoirs of Hagop Arsenian, A Genocide Survivor
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2015
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Towards Golgotha narrates the Memoirs of pharmacist Hagop Arsenian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Written originally in Armenian, it contains two parts. The first part narrates the early life of Arsenian in the suburbs of Constantinople and then the eventual deportation of his whole family all the way to Aleppo, Syria.
The second part describes the Arsenian’s family life in Palestine from 1919 until 1940 especially in Jerusalem and Gaza, where Hagop Arsenian practices as a pharmacist.
Towards Golgotha has around 300 pages including 4 maps, 24 illustrations and 2 Appendices.
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"Towards Golgotha: The Memoirs of Hagop Arsenian, A Genocide Survivor", translated and annotated by Arda Arsenian Ekmekji, HU Press, Beirut, 2015