ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author draws attention to several phenomenological characteristics that he believes clearly indicates the primal difference that separate Auschwitz from Kolyma. He focuses on the Holocaust and comparative history began in 1980s with the publication of an essay entitled “The Unique Intentionality of the Holocaust,” that appeared in the first number of Modern Judaism in May 1981. Among the many cases of mass violence in non-Jewish history that the author discussed were: the terrible treatment of American and Brazilian Indians by European colonizers; and the horrific murder of Armenians during 1915–1916 in the midst of World War I. Several additional seminal factors that strengthen the morphological dis analogy between the Armenian tragedy and the Holocaust need to be introduced into our argument at this juncture. They are: the possibility of Armenian Christian conversion to Islam as a way of avoiding deportation and worse; and the non-totalistic nature of the anti-Armenian crusade.
