Word: musa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount...
...FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH? Franz Werfel?Viking...
...officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it. When the expected order came for all Armenians to evacuate the valley, Bagradian had made his plans. Night before the Turks came to clear them out, 5,000 Armenian villagers moved up to the heights of Musa Dagh. They expected nothing but death, but they preferred...
...consuls, God-fearing Moslems, meddle dangerously with high-tension wires to save a race condemned by cold policy. Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...