List of Figures; Preface; Note on Transliteration; Notes on Translation and Editing; Acknowledgements; About the Diary and Author; Background of the Region; Diary of a Seminarian; 1. From the Author; 2. The Emergence and Spread of Christianity; 3. Difficult times: Persecution Suffered by Christianity in Various Periods of History; 4. Persecution in the Most Recent Times – the end of the 19th Century; 5. The year 1914 – The beginning of the World War I; 6. My diary; 7. Eyewitness reports: The story of a road worker named Abed Mshiho, who saw the most; 8. The Christians of the city of Amida and its subordinate villages – executions and the exodus of the year 1915; 9. Extermination of Christians in the villages of the district of Mardin in the year 1914; 10. The Sinjar Mountains suffer for Christians; 11. The fate of Christian inhabitants of other localities; 12. Positive and negative attitudes of some participants of the exterminations; Bibliography; Annexes 1–3.