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Armenian Genocide Contemporary press records; documents 947.56 ARMEN Armenian The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press, 1915-1922 (C/BV) Genocide 956.6 ARMEN The Armenian Genocide: Documents and Declarations, 1915-1995 (C) memoirs and 956.6 UNITE United States Official Records on the primary sources Armenian Genocide 1915-1917 (C/BV) 956.62 ARMEN The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005: Documents and Declarations (ALL) 956.62015 ARMEN The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896: British Media Testimony (C) Burbank Central Library (C) 956.62015 ARMEN 110 N. Glenoaks Blvd. The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896: 818-238-5600 U.S. Media Testimony (C) Buena Vista Branch Library (BV) 300 N. Buena Vista St. 818-238-5620 Northwest Branch Library (NW) 3323 W. Victory Blvd. 818-238-5640 Ararat and Saint Hripsime Church (1945) - Martiros Saryan burbanklibrary.org July 2018 956.6 SOGHO Soghoian, Florence Portrait of a Survivor (C) 956.6 TATRE Tatrean, Vahram To the Desert: Pages From My Diary (C) 956.6023 SHAMT Shamtanchen, Mik’ayēl The Fatal Night: An Eyewitness Account Memoirs, eyewitness accounts, of the Extermination of Armenian Intellectuals contemporary diaries and letters in 1915 (C) 956.62 MORGE Morgenthau, Henry 92 B171 BALAK Balakian, Peter 956.6023 SHIRI Shirinian, Lorne Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (ALL) Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir (ALL) Survivor Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide (C) 956.62 TERKA Tēr Karapetean, Hakob S 92 K45 KHERD Kherdian, David Jail to Jail: Autobiography of a Survivor The Road From Home: of the 1915 Armenian Genocide (C/BV) The Story of an Armenian Girl (All) 956.62015 MCLAR McLaren, Grisell 92 SH599 SHIRA Shirakian, Ashavir The Tragedy of Bitlis: The Legacy: Memoirs of an Being Mainly the Narratives Of Armenian Patriot (C) Grisell M. McLaren and Myrtle O. Shane (C) 947.56 ATKIN Atkinson, Tacy 956.62015 PALAK Palak’ean, Grigoris The German, the Turk and the Devil Made a Armenian Golgotha (C) Triple Alliance: Harpoot Diaries, 1908-1917 (C) 956.62015 REICH Reichenberg, Eberhard Woffskeel 956.6 ARLEN Arlen, Michael Eberhard Count Wolffskeel von Reichenberg, Passage to Ararat (ALL) Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian Genocide (C) 956.6 MILLE Miller, Donald Survivors: An Oral History of the 956.6202 CETIN Cetain, Fethiye Armenia Genocide (C/BV) 956.62 BANEA Karnig Panian; Banean, Garnik My Grandmother: A Memoir (C) Goodbye Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide (C) 973.0491992 HOVAN Hovanisian, Garin Family of Shadows: 956.62 MACKE MacKeen, Dawn Anahid A Century of Murder, Memory, and the The Hundred-Year Walk: Armenian-American Dream (C/BV) An Armenian Odyssey (ALL) 956.62 MARSO Marsoobian, Armen Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia (BV).
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