While there has been extensive studies done by scholars, psychologists, and through personal interviews, as demonstrated in this research paper, compared to Holocaust survivors, with regards to the current state of research there has be no incentive to obtain personal information on Armenian Genocide survivors as the Turkish government has denied the atrocities in addition to the fact that many survivors have passed away long before Holocaust survivors. As such, the existing state of literature consists more information on trauma and its effects on Holocaust survivors compared to Armenian Genocide survivors. The research below consists of literature from psychologists and scholars and personal accounts from survivors both from the Holocaust
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Has the trauma from Holocaust survivors been passed down through generations? If so, what has been passed down and how does that transmission occur? Do Armenian Genocide survivors undergo similar experiences? How are their experiences different? Research reveals that countless survivors have been difficulty in overcoming their past experiences. PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been used to characterize the trauma of both Holocaust and Armenian Genocide survivors. While survivors from both events have undergone trauma, the trauma of Holocaust survivors has been passed down through generations and has been effecting people such as family members and children, similar to survivors and proceeding generations of the Armenian Genocide. The purpose of this study is to reveal the impact of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide on survivors. The study will further focus on the emotional, physical, and spiritual effects of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide on proceeding generations and the process in which the transmission occurs. Finally, the study will reveal effective coping mechanisms that have been both suggested and used by survivors in order to overcome their trauma to put and end to the transmission of generational …show more content…
During the time of the massacre, approximately 2 million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire. When the deportations and massacres finally came to a halt in the 1920’s, an estimated 1.5 million Armenian Christians were massacred. Historians today declare the atrocious events as genocide—a systematic and premeditated campaign to annihilate an entire population. The genocide was an event that took place during World War I in which deportees and were subject to rape, deprived of food, and massacred. The organized crimes took place in distinct phases: the first consisted of the enlistment of approximately 60,000 Armenian men into the Ottoman army, and were murdered by their Turkish soldiers. The second phases consisted of the extermination of Armenian individuals beginning on April 24, 1915 in which several hundred Armenian representatives and intellectuals of national elite were arrested and were subsequently killed. The following phase was characterized by the exile of children, women, and the elderly whereby hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered by Turkish police and soldiers. Many also died due to epidemic diseases. Many Armenians have been traumatized and are still in shock today as a result of the massacres. With Turkey’s resistance to accept the genocide, Armenian’s struggle today with accepting the past and moving on in a positive
Has the trauma from Holocaust survivors been passed down through generations? If so, what has been passed down and how does that transmission occur? Do Armenian Genocide survivors undergo similar experiences? How are their experiences different? Research reveals that countless survivors have been difficulty in overcoming their past experiences. PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been used to characterize the trauma of both Holocaust and Armenian Genocide survivors. While survivors from both events have undergone trauma, the trauma of Holocaust survivors has been passed down through generations and has been effecting people such as family members and children, similar to survivors and proceeding generations of the Armenian Genocide. The purpose of this study is to reveal the impact of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide on survivors. The study will further focus on the emotional, physical, and spiritual effects of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide on proceeding generations and the process in which the transmission occurs. Finally, the study will reveal effective coping mechanisms that have been both suggested and used by survivors in order to overcome their trauma to put and end to the transmission of generational …show more content…
During the time of the massacre, approximately 2 million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire. When the deportations and massacres finally came to a halt in the 1920’s, an estimated 1.5 million Armenian Christians were massacred. Historians today declare the atrocious events as genocide—a systematic and premeditated campaign to annihilate an entire population. The genocide was an event that took place during World War I in which deportees and were subject to rape, deprived of food, and massacred. The organized crimes took place in distinct phases: the first consisted of the enlistment of approximately 60,000 Armenian men into the Ottoman army, and were murdered by their Turkish soldiers. The second phases consisted of the extermination of Armenian individuals beginning on April 24, 1915 in which several hundred Armenian representatives and intellectuals of national elite were arrested and were subsequently killed. The following phase was characterized by the exile of children, women, and the elderly whereby hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered by Turkish police and soldiers. Many also died due to epidemic diseases. Many Armenians have been traumatized and are still in shock today as a result of the massacres. With Turkey’s resistance to accept the genocide, Armenian’s struggle today with accepting the past and moving on in a positive