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“Twice a Stranger”, by Bruce Clark, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2006 (explains background and economics leading to forced emigration of non-Muslims)
“Ataturk”, by Andrew Mango, The Overlook Press, Woodstock & New York, 1999
“The Spirit of the Game”, by Basil Mathews, George H. Doran Company, New York, 1926. "The Great Rescue" by R. W. Abernethy pp. 159-201 (As Abernethy says in this article, he interviewed AKJ one evening while taking a trip on a ship, and then wrote down what AKJ told him.)
“Story of Near East Relief 1915-1930”, by James L. Barton, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930 (He was Chairman of Near East Relief that provided food and more to the refugees from their warehouses in Istanbul)
“Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East, Volume II, 1914-1956”, by J.C. Hurewitz, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, NJ, 1956 (This is a compilation of treaties and other official documents)
“Certain Samaritans”, by Esther Pohl Lovejoy, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1927. (story of the American Women's Hospitals providing medical care and medicine in Turkey, Greece and other countries. Includes a chapter with photos about help U.S. and British sailors provided to refugees, including protection against Turks)
“Crossing the Aegean”, edited by Renee Hirschon, Berghahn Books, New York 2003 (population and economic information)
“The Burning Tigris”, Peter Balakian. Harper Collins. New York: 2003.
"...a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks." - Harper Collins
http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060198400
"Middlesex", by Jeffrey Eugenides. Picador. New York: 2003.
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel and best seller from the author of the Virgin Suicides. The story recounts in the Stephanides family's escape from Smyrna in 1922.
Hear Jeffrey Eugenides read from Middlesex. http://www.fsgbooks.com/fsg/middlesex.htm
"American Accounts Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna by the Kemalist Turkish Forces, September 1922". Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou.
(unpublished) - http://www.caratzas.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=4042

 
 
 

 

     

 

 

     
       
 
 
Online resources (articles and images)
 
 

 

"Turkish Leader Calls for Study of Genocide Debate". Los Angeles Times, March 9 2005.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-turkey9mar09,1,5991797.story?ctrack=1&cset=true If the article is no longer available online, click here for text.

 

 

The Smyrna Project features a large collection of archival photographs of Smyrna before and after 1922.

http://www.greeklibrary.agrino.org/projects/Smyrna1922/

 
 

The Smyrna Commemorative series, hosted by the Hellenic Communication Service. Among its features is an eye-witness account of the siege.

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/commemorativeserieswitnessaccount.html  
 
Family history of Theo Pavlidis, recounting the expulsion of the Greeks from Asia Minor.
 
"Some of the tragic events that engulfed my parents (and millions of other people) were triggered by the efforts of "world powers" to control the Iraqi oil fields. While I am writing this document in February of 2003 a war with Iraq seems imminent. It gives me an eerie feeling."
http://www.theopavlidis.com/AsiaMinor/History1.htm
 
 
 

A biography of Setrak Shahen, a survivor of Smyrna.

http://www.hunchak.org.au/aboutus/lestweforget_setrak_shahen.html

 

 

Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City. Marjorie Housepian Dobkin. Faber. London: 1972.
 
"A poignant, meticulously documented chronicle of an all but forgotten tragedy...beautifully recaptures the flavor and richness of Smyrna in it's prime."
The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
   

 

 

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American Hellenic Institute

http://www.ahiworld.org

 

 

Hellenic Electronic Center

http://www.greece.org/