Sirvard Kuridian |
Sirvard Kurdian was forced at the age of three, to walk with her siblings and grandfather from Erzerum, (located in eastern Turkey,) to Mosul in Iraq. Their family lived in Mosul for four years, sewing their own clothes using a sewing machine, which Sirvard still owns today (Shearlaw, Maeve).
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"Born in 1913 to an Armenian family in Kharpert-Mezreh, Dr. Hagopian was a genocide survivor who dedicated his life to the visual documentation of the Turkish extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. In all, his work encompassed nearly 400 interviews of survivors and witnesses of the Armenian Genocide and 40 years of research (USC Shoah Foundation)."
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Dr. J. Hagopian |
Beso Gasparian |
"It was night-time in Dalvor when 12-year-old Beso Gasparian’s family were warned of the proximity of Ottoman soldiers. She fled with her mother and her eight-year-old brother, Manuk, to a hill above the village to hide their valuables and wait for the rest of their family to join them.
But as dawn came a massacre erupted. They watched as the soldiers beheaded her father and stabbed her two-year-old nephew before turning on the boy’s mother, Kveh. She was seven months’ pregnant. The three of them returned to the village the following night to bury the dead. “The scene was hellish. We put the killed baby on my sister’s chest and covered them with stones. But we couldn’t find my father’s corpse,” wrote Lusya Araqelyan, recounting the story told to her by her grandmother (Shearlaw, Maeve)." |