A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide as a Perpetrator of the Holocaust: The Case of Eghia Hovhannesian

Andrea Pető*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Comparative genocide studies developed methodologies to compare the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. Dadrian, for example, identified three characteristics for comparison: intergroup conflict with a history of growth and escalation, genocide serves as a radical device to solve the conflict, so it is a tool of social restructuring, and conflict resolution, afforded by a critical disparity of power. This chapter analyzes the life of one survivor of the Armenian genocide who became a perpetrator of the Holocaust. Through analyzing Eghia Hovhannesian’s life story, it introduces what dilemmas the Armenians who fled to Hungary had to face after the First World War and what kind of trajectories determined the way they could talk or rather not talk about their own persecution. After 1914, 400,000 Armenian refugees arrived in Europe, 200 of them in Hungary during the First World War. After 1916, approximately 20 Catholic families fled the genocide to Hungary.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCritical Approaches to Genocide
Subtitle of host publicationHistory, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages41-56
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9780429023163
ISBN (Print)9781032420585, 9780367085834
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Aug 2023

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