Հրանուշ Խառատեան2026-01-272026-01-272013Խառատեան, Հ., «Ի. դարի միջնադար», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2013, Պէյրութ, էջ 403-496https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1124A number of Armenians in Western Armenia survived the Genocide by converting to Islam. Some disguised themselves as Kurds; others were deported to new places and took new identities. Some maintained their language, while others opted for Kurdish or Turkish. One of the common denominators of these groupings was the fact that they maintained a double identity: an oppressed, secret Armenian identity and an overt, non-Armenian one. Nonetheless, this duality was well-known in different parts of Western Armenia, where others considered them a deserted, left out grouping that had no master. They were persecuted outcasts, scraping out their livelihood on the margins of an already under-civilized society. The four interviews that are published here tell the peculiar stories of four of these families, namely Sassoun-Dersim, Kharpert, and Arkhunt who lived in different parts of Western Armenia. The interviews uncover the lives of Armenians with dual national identities who survived as sub-humans in the Turkish Republic after the massacres of 1915 and under the Kemalist regime. These and such stories reconstruct aspects of the 20* century history of the Armenian nation. They go far beyond the Genocide and the political history the Armenian Republic (1918-1920), during the Soviet era (1920-1991) and during the third republic (as of 1991). Indeed, the article covers the story of the remnants of the Genocide both in the Diaspora and in their ancestral lands. The latter is a newly developing area of study with both its Diasporic and ancestral facets.