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During the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, half of the Armenian population-estimated at one to two million men, women and children-was killed in order to transform the multiethnic and multi-religious Ottoman society into a homogeneous Turkish state. The remaining population was forced to flee and build new lives elsewhere. Thousands of displaced Armenians came to the United States, and settled in Yettem in the California San Joaquin Valley. Armenian Genocide: Survivors and Heroes compiles 19 essays written by survivors and heroes of the genocide who made the Yettem settlement their new home.