01-24-2008, 11:26 AM
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What about other testimony?
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Among those featured on the Yad Vashem site is Dina Beitler, a survivor of the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million Jews in World War II. Beitler, who was shot and left for dead in a pit of bodies in 1941, recalls her story on the site, with Arabic subtitles.
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Yahoo News
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Like so many Armenian families, the Manouks are overshadowed by a history of mass murder. During the Armenian genocide of 1915, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks, Paul Manouk's grandfather – the three Iraqi orphans' great-grandfather – was taken from his family by Turkish policemen in a line of other men and never seen again. His father, then just six years old, survived along with his mother. "But my father's sister, we believe, was taken by a Kurdish man as his wife," Mr Manouk said.
"My grandfather's two other sisters had a terrible fate. Their legs had swollen on the long march south from their home in Besni, near Marash, and they could not keep walking, so my grandmother took the decision to leave them on the roadside and keep the son so that our 'line' would survive. The two little girls were never seen again."
The family had almost reached the border of the Ottoman province of Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq – on the long march of ethnic cleansing when, like tens of thousands other Armenians, they lost their loved ones through exhaustion and starvation. A million-and-a-half Armenians died in the genocide.
After the British occupation of Iraq in 1917, British troops escorted the remains of the Manouk family to Basra where one of the aunts looking after the three Awanis sisters still lives.
A final irony in this appalling story was that the man who had to identify Marou Awanis' body was her brother,Albert. He was a survivor of the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz.
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Maybe if the Holocaust Museum started with testimony from survivors of the other 6 millions they might get somewhere.
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