Article number: 1

Title: With death as a shadow

Author: Besim Aydin

Language: Swedish

Number of pages: 304

ISBN: 91-631-8584-9

Release year: 2006/08

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With death as shadow

The book is about the genocide and the victimization who happened against the syriac people 1914-1915. The killers, and bad guys was the Turks (osmaner) and Kurds, which sometimes co-operated, and sometimes fought against each other. Through the book we follow the christian boy Benjamin which near nine years old get lost from his both parents when the village Zaz get invade of Turkish soldiers and their allies, the Kurds. 

During his time as a fugitive he met humans from the both sides of the war. The destiny and the stories weaves together with Benjamin’s own reactions and observations in a fight on life or death. Many of the episodes who has been describe very exactly and detailed in the book have happened and is building on eyewitnesses and accounts who has been passed on from one generation to another. The author has embroidered out these episodes after what he did get to know about the genocide and the victimization. Benjamin self, however , doesn’t exist, his story is building on many other stories about the outrages.