The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an Open Wound, Paperback

Does injustice have an expiration date? Is it possible to wipe the slate clean of crimes of such magnitude, simply because the victims who suffered them are long dead? What stance is civilized humanity obliged to take towards Turkey, who denies the fact that the actions they perpetrated against Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrians amount to genocide? Does not the absence of severe world condemnation entail a share in the guilt? If responsibility is neither attributed nor admitted regarding the butchery of entire peoples on the fringes of Europe in the opening decades of the 20th century, then political expediency has corrupted the very meaning of justice in the world. What obligation do we citizens of the world have in such a case? In the house of the hanged man, we must examine the rope. And we must pursue the crime, so that no one will again dare to set up the gallows.

About the Author:

Theodora Ioannidou was born in 1953 in Athens, where she lives with her family and works as a dentist. She is a third-generation Pontian, two of whose grandparents hailed from the coastal city of Oinoe and the other two from the remote mountain villages of Matsouka and Chaldia. "The Pontian Holocaust still an open wound" is her first book.