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"Not Even My Name is the story of Sano Halo's survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family - as told to her daughter, Thea - and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.".
"In the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers pounded on doors with the butts of their rifles and shouted the proclamation issued by General Kemal (Ataturk): "You are to leave this place. You are to take with you only what you can carry..." On their death march, victims lay where they fell and buzzards hung above their heads. So ended the three-thousand-year history of the Pontic Greeks in Turkey.".
"At age fifteen Sano was sold into marriage to a man who brought her to America. He was three times her age. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten childen, and her transformation from an innocent girl who lived an ancient way of life in a remote place to a nurturing mother and determined woman in twentieth-century New York City."--BOOK JACKET.
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Greek Americans, Greek American women, Greeks, Genocide, Biography, History, Turkey, biography, Social conditionsPeople
Sano Themia Halo, Thea HaloTimes
20th century, Social conditionsShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Not Even My Name: A True Story
June 2, 2001, Picador
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in English
- 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition
0312277016 9780312277017
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Oute to onoma mou: genoktonia kai epiviose : mia alethine istoria tou Pontou.
2001, Govostis
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9602708662 9789602708668
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Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl's true story of genocide and survival
2000, Picador USA
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Map of the Greeks of Ionia (Asia Minor) on end pages.
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Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family, and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.
In the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers arrived in the village and shouted the proclamation issued by General Kemal Attatürk: "You are to leave this place. You are to take with you only what you can carry . . . " After surviving the march, Sano was sold into marriage at age fifteen to a man three times her age who brought her to America. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children, and her transformation from an innocent girl who lived an ancient way of life in a remote place to a woman in twentieth-century New York City.
Although Turkey actively suppresses the truth about the murder of almost three million of its Christian minorities--Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian--during and after World War I, and the exile of millions of others, here is a first-hand account of the horrors of that genocide.
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