ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the plight of Armenian women as victims and survivors of the Genocide, and points to the need for more in-depth research and study in this field. During the darkest period of Armenian history, Armenian women were victimized by a prolonged agony. Eyewitness accounts detailed the plight of Armenian women, mothers witnessing their daughters being raped, their sons and husbands being tortured and killed in front of their eyes. The main opening for progress in the study of the plight of the Armenian women victims of the Genocide is the keen interest of third-generation Armenians in the experience of their grandmothers. In-depth analysis of the experiences of Armenian women—victims and survivors—would certainly help to expand our knowledge of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian survivors who have now almost all passed on were denied the satisfaction of seeing the criminal admit the crime—a unique situation in the Armenian case—which could have had a psychological, even a therapeutic effect.
