Despite the family’s destitute condition and being forced from their homeland, they managed to arrive in the U.S. for the remainder of their lives.
Another incredible memoir is written by Grigoris Balakian, an Armenian priest who managed to survive as well, depicted his own gruesome sightings:
“There, my God, before my eyes were the swollen and dismembered bodies of murdered men and women; many of their heads were detached from the bodies, and in some cases, their bowels were spilled out. All these bodies had been stripped bare, and hands and feet or legs were thrown far from the torsos” (#9 pg 159).
As difficult as it is to read these first-hand accounts, it is imperative in order to fully comprehend what transpired. He continued to write:…show more content… Yervant Alexanian, an Armenian soldier forced to serve in the Ottoman Turkish Army, wrote yet another personal story documenting his experiences:
“Here, the men were separated from the group, were searched again, robbed one more time, then their arms had been bound. They had been led into a nearby valley, where they had been executed. They hadn’t just been shot dead. Some had been stabbed and hacked to death with axes” (#13 pg 56).
In just these few accounts, it can be inferred that there was a repeated pattern of the methods of killing and the torturous fate of the
