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Bakhtiarian Hagop
was born in 1909. His
father was killed in 1915. His mother converted the rest of the family to
Islam so they wouldn’t get killed. They then fled their village and
became Christian again. |
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Balian Kevork
has lost both his parents and
all of his relatives during the Armenian Genocide. He was the only
survivor from his village. He grew up as an orphan in Egypt and then
moved to America. |
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Kachian Rahan
was born in 1911. When the
Turks killed her father, she and her sister went and found his head and
buried it. She ended up in the Sayda orphanage. |
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Hagopian Sarkis
was an orphan who grew up on
the streets until one day he was put in an orphanage, sent to Lebanon and
then to France in 1932. |
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Hartunian Vartan
and his family were saved by
Dr. E. Stanley Cur, a missionary who hid them behind a truck and helped
them cross Syria. Before that, in 1920, he remembers hiding in the Marash
church which was burning with 2000 inside. Then, the family was saved
again by Dr. Wilson who helped them get to Greece. At the age of 7, he
arrived in America where he grew up to become the minister of an
Evangelical church. He preaches often about the Genocide and why we
should not hate the Turks. |
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Abrahamian Souren
was born in 1907. HE lost his
three uncles and his father 1915. During the deportation, he witnessed
the death of his sister-in-law and he lost both his grandmothers. He’s
the author of the book From Van to Detroit. |
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Boghosian Rose
was born in 1905. She was
deported from Adapazar to the Arabian deserts where she lost all of her
family. She has seen horrifying scenes in the desert and she’s lived with
the survivor guilt all her life. She was taken to France with many other
orphans in 1922. She then came to America. |
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Dedekian Armineh
was born in 1915. That year
the Turks killed her father. She was a newborn during the deportation.
Before reaching the Arabian deserts, her mother found a job in a hospital
and that’s the last thing she knew about her mother. She doesn’t know
what happened to her after that. She became an orphan and her paternal
family found and raised her until one day her mother found her in America! |
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Semerdjian Sahag
was born in 1911. He stayed in
Der Zor, the Arabian desert for 6 months. His father and uncle were taken
away by the Turks and never came back. They tried to kill him too but his
mother saved him. His brothers and aunts went to Istanbul with him. Then
they all went to America. |
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Semeroff Mary
was born in 1906. Her family
was deported with wagons. On their way to the desert, they lost their
grandfather. They had nothing to eat or to wear. Her three brothers were
killed in front of her eyes. She was left with her mother. An Arab man
found her and her mother and saved them. |
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Melkonian Harry
lost his sister and mother
during the 1915 deportation. They had gone to a fountain and they never
came back. He was adopted by a Kurdish family. One day, an Armenian man
who knew him took him away from that Kurdish family. He ended up in Syria
and the was sent to America. He was born in 1905. |
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Esseryan Arika
was born in 1905. She was
deported to Syria. In 1918, she and her family went back to their
village. In 1920, they were forced to leave again. She remembers how an
8-month old baby died in her arms. In1924, Arika was taken France and
then to America. She just wants the world to know that the Genocide was
an organized ethnic cleansing and not part of any war. |
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Assadourian Hagop
was born in 1903 or 1906. He’s
not sure about his age but he knows he was 3 when he lost his father.
There were 331 Armenians in his village. Only 29 survived and he’s one.
During the deportation, he had to throw the corpse of his mother down a
valley. He became an orphan. He’s the author of the book The
Grandchildren of Hovagim. |
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Krikorian Arisdineh
was born in 1907. During the
1915 forced marches, she lost her younger sister and her mother. She was
in Georgia when, in 1921, her father found her and decided to take her
back to Istanbul. She ended up in an arranged marriage and was sent to
America. |
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Der Parseghian Alice
and her family fled to Armenia
during the Genocide. From there, her uncle joined the family, put them in
a train and went to Georgia. In 1916, they arrived to Ellis Island.
During the interview, she talks about why she hates Turks and why she
thinks the Turkish government hasn’t recognized the Genocide. |
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Mempreian Vergin
was born in 1910. She only
remembers her uncle and cousins being tied together, they were going to
get killed. She escaped from the Turks and joined an orphanage. In 1925,
she went to Egypt. She doesn’t remember her father or mother. She
believes that the Turks should apologize. She says she will never forgive
them. |