An Excerpt from Kud Mkhitarian’s Unpublished Memoires “Episodes from Armenian Golgotha”

Abstract

The publication presents an excerpt from the unpublished memoirs, “Episodes from the Armenian Golgotha. 1912–1937” by Kud Mkhitarian - the chapter “Catholicos Sahak again in Aleppo.” Kud Mkhitaryan (1877-1940) in 1903–1919 worked at the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia as the secretary of the Catolicos Sahak II Khabayan. In his memoires, in particular, he presented Catolicos’s activities on the background of political events in the Ottoman Empire. The presented excerpt presents Catholicos Sahak’s trip to Aleppo in May-July 1915, quotes from his correspondence with various figures, in which he testifies to the deportation and massacres of the Armenian population. Mention is made of the names of the Armenian creative intelligentsia – victims of the Genocide, as well as evidences of attempts to forcibly Islamize Armenians.