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Title: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Majorie Housepian Dobkin ISBN: 0-9667451-0-8 Publisher: New Mark Pr Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Smyrni 1922
Comment: The book was translated and published in Greek in 1998. I ve done a lot of reading about the issue of the Greek- Turkish "relations", maybe I should use the word drama instead, it may fit better. This book is the one that presents the most surprising testimonies, the first hand narrations for instance of some surviving members of the American battleships anchored in the Izmir/Smyrna gulf that black september of 1922.Theres a big variety of published and unpublished sources on which the author supported her conclusions but still the personal evidences are the most shocking ones. The modern Turks still claim that it was the Christians that set Smyrna on fire, I wouldnt expect them to think differently, this is what they re tought to believe. They know so little about the massive massacres of that era, they think that Greeks just left Asia minor along with the Greek troops, as if a population of 1.5 milion people can just pack and leave their homes scattered around a country as big as Turkey. The good thing is that fanatism no longer exists in Turkey, you can discuss these issues in Turkey with Turks being a Greek and expressing what you really think of the case, thats something, its a hope that such things wont happen again. The fact that Turkish authorities treated the city of Smyrna after the fire the way they did isnt a proof of its own about who did the thing? (they just dimolished what was left and built a huge park right in the heart of the city, in the area where the Greek and the Armenian quarters used to be) Its a sad fact, memory exists no more in the city of Izmir.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Story of Forgotten Genocide
Comment: Dobkin's book is brilliant, and should be assigned reading for students of 20th century history. Visitors to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC learn that Hitler cited the Turkish genocide of the Armenian and Greek populations of Asia Minor from 1915-23 as inspiration for the NAZI genocide. Now, Dobkin captures the last act of the Turkish genocide, the 1923 burning of Smyrna. The US Counsel at Smyrna, George Horton, having witnessed the Turkish atrocities, subsequently wrote that, "One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race." Holocaust revisionists...are now denying that the event took place. Dobkin's book serves as a warning to future regimes planning similar acts that their crimes will never be forgotten.
Rating: 5
Summary: A story to tell.
Comment: Simply... one more true testimony!
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