Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armenians, Donald and Lorna Miller give the "forgotten genocide" the hearing it deserves. Survivors raise important issues about genocide and about how people cope with traumatic experience. Much here is wrenchingly painful, yet it also speaks to the strength of the human spirit.

Donald E. Miller is Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and the author of Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium (California, 1997). Lorna Touryan Miller is Director of the Office for Creative Connections at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. Her parents survived the Armenian genocide.

"Shocking and poignant."—Kirkus Reviews

"Combining a compelling oral history with a trenchant analysis of the first major genocide of the 20th century, this moving study focuses on the Turkish murder of more than one million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 in a systematic campaign of mass deportations, slaughter, forced labor and starvation. . . . The Millers . . . present formidable documentary evidence that this holocaust was the result of an ultranationalist Turkish government's deliberate plan to exterminate the Armenians (still denied by Turkish officials)."—Publishers Weekly

"The memories collected by the Millers are more than 70 years old, but the recollections of the survivors are vivid. . . . [The] book provides additional evidence, if such is needed, of one of the great tragedies of modern history."—New York Times

"The Millers . . . do not attempt to distance themselves from their material and do not conceal their involvement with the survivors. Yet they are fair in their judgments and do not suppress evidence of the humanity and kindness to the Armenians of many Turks who opposed the deportation and bloodshed. . . . Provides additional evidence, if such is needed, of one of the greatest tragedies of modern history."—Firoz Kazemzadeh, New York Times Book Review

"[The Millers] paint a balanced picture”—Times Literary Supplement

"Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller have produced a work that contributes to the effort of chipping away at such forgetfulness and silence. It is a work that also acts as a bulwak against the insidious denial, issued by the Turks and other deniers and minimizers, that the Armenian genocide never took place."--Holocaust Genocide Studies

"The suffering of the Armenian people in the great masscres of 1915 is not easy to discuss even-handedly, not only because of the sheer horror, but because of the continuing Turkish denial that the massacres occured. But Donald and Lorna Miller, in Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, paint a balanced picture."--Times Literary Supplement

"Painfully moving and objective....impressive in its scope and methodology."--Library Journal

"Well-written, haunting, and thought-provoking volume....The first comprehensive study of the Armenian genocided based on survivor testimony....By incorporating the voices, views, and memories of the survivors, the history not only comes alive, but the specific points of information...augment the general historical overview....Both thought-provoking and moving."--Samuel Totten, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

"A superb work of scholarship and a deeply moving human document. . . . A unique work, one that will serve truth, understanding, and decency."—Roger W. Smith, College of William and Mary