Smyrna, September 1922: The American Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide

In September 1922, the richest city of the Mediterranean was burned, and countless numbers of Christian refugees killed. The city was Smyrna, and the event was the final episode of the 20th Century’s first genocide — the slaughter of three million Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire.

The slaughter at Smyrna occurred as warships of the great powers stood by — the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy. The deaths of hundreds of thousands seemed inevitable until an American minister staged a bold rescue with the help of a courageous U.S.naval officer. Now, the forgotten story of one of the great humanitarian acts of history gets told.

• Not Even My Name: A True Story
• The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an open wound
• Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
• THE BLIGHT of ASIA: On the Systematic Extermination of Christian Populations in Asia
• The Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey: Survivor Testimonies From The Nicomedia (Izmit) Massacres of 1920-1921
• Paradise Lost
• Backcast
• Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey (Forced Migration)
• The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
• Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922