John Minassian Author

John Minassian was twenty when the Armenian genocide occurred. He was the only survivor of his family, and he was ultimately able to emigrate to the United States. His grandson, Roderick Ai Camp, is McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College. Wendy Lower, author of the introduction, is director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, John K. Roth Professor of History, and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. Her book, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Mariner Books 2013), was a National Book Award finalist.