ABSTRACT
Alen Salerian's material was obtained through interviews with ten Armenian genocide survivors and their offspring from the Washington, D.C., area and taped interviews of Armenian-American survivors recorded as part of an oral history project on the Armenian genocide. Salerian includes observations of Armenian survivors whom he has known personally. Aside from their personal observations and Haigaz Grigorian's in-depth interviews with a survivor who sought him out for treatment, the authors were involved in a two-day conference that focused on the sequelae of the Armenian genocide. Because of the historical differences between the public recognition of the events of the Jewish Holocaust and the denial of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, the impact upon the subsequent generations is very different. The issue of Armenian identity and insistence upon the recognition of that event by the world plays a central role in the identity formation of subsequent generations of Armenians.
