Ocaleni z rzezi Ormian - Redux

Roza Khondkaryan, born in 1914, Igdir town, Surmalu province, Russian Empire "We migrated from the city of Igdir in Surmalu province. Our family was b...

Khachik Pepisyan, born in 1910, Kebusiye village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo vilayet "People were being evicted from their homes. My family left their house, b...

Hovhannes Balabanyan, born in 1913, Bithias village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo Vilayet. "There are no mountains and no spring water anywhere else like the one...

Tigranuhi Asatryan, born in 1910 in Kagizman town, Kars Province, Turkey. "We emigrated from Kagizman on two occasions. I don't remember the first ti...

Aregnaz Karapetyan, born in 1904, Igdalu village, Ankara Vilayet, Turkey. "I don't remember a thing. I only know that my father tied me to his chest a...

Ashkhen Avetisyan, born 1907, Latar village, Bitlis Vilayet, Turkey. Her sons told that they were deported in 1915. They said that Ms. Avetisyan had...

Noyem Hovhannisyan (Jamkochyan), born in 1910, Musa Dagh, Aleppo vilayet. She held up a portrait of herself and her deceased husband. "There was a di...

Hovhannes Avetisyan, born in 1908, Tzpni village, Kars Province, Turkey. "There were 12 people in my family, I am the only one left, the Turks killed...

Movses Dermishyan, born in 1908, Haji-Hababli village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo Vilayet, sitting with his wife, Sara Dermishyan. "Musa Dagh consisted of six...

Noyem Beyazyan, born in 1907, Partizak town, Nicomedia (vicinity of Constantinople) "My father was a priest, also a beekeeper. He managed to get me to...

Mari Vardanyan, born 1907, city of Malatya, Turkey. "The massacres began. My grandmother sold our house and gave the money she received to the govern...

Manik Manukyan, born 1910, Silivri town, in the vicinity of Constantinople, Turkey. "We escaped at night, and reached Greece in ships. My mother took...

Manik Manukyan's hands, Manik Manukyan, born 1910, Silivri town, in the vicinity of Constantinople, Turkey. "We escaped at night, and reached Greece...

Yeranuhi Shahazizyan, born in 1913, Igdir town, Surmalu province, Turkey.

Arevhat Poghosyan, born in 1910, Sarighamish town, Kars province, Turkey. "We migrated in 1918. We were deported with the Russian army. On May 23, 192...

Yelena Abrahamyan, born 1912, city of Kars, Turkey "I've seen this with my own eyes ? a woman with a child in her lap, jumped into the river. The riv...

Nvard Sujyan, born in 1915, city of Van, Turkey. "I didn't see the massacres, I was very small when my family migrated. My father was a cook, he'd mak...

Shmavon Sahakyan, born in 1913 Zrchi village, Kars province, Turkey. "I can't forget our house, our yard, our gardens? I think about them day and nigh...

Mariam Avoyan, born in 1901, Bitlis Vilayet, Turkey, held up a wedding image of herself and her husband, while her daughter stood behind her. "I reme...

Azat Tovmasyan, born in 1916, Korter village, Bitlis vilayet, Turkey "I was born on the migration journey. At 40 days old, I contracted chickenpox. M...

Abraham Sargsyan, born in 1905, city of Diyarbekir, Turkey. "I was 10 years old when the deportations started. My three brothers died on that journey....

Vardush Hovhannisyan, born in 1908, city of Van, Turkey. "I remember a woman, she was probably my mother, we were walking along the beach. ? We were o...

Tigran Farajyan, born in 1907, city of Sis, Adana Vilayet, Turkey "The Turkish state forced all the Armenians of Cilicia to migrate to Mesopotamia,...

Parandzem Hovhannisyan, born in 1910, Prkhus village, Bitlis Vilayet, Turkey. "My two elder brothers died on the way, only the younger one and I remai...

Yeranuhi Pananyan, born in1915, Musa Dagh, Aleppo vilayet (did not remember the village) "I don't remember much, I was a breast-suckling infant. I onl...

Rehan Hakobyan, born in 1914, Krkhu village, Bitlis Vilayet, Turkey. "The Russian troops helped us and we emigrated. We passed between the two Masis m...

Nshan Trdatyan, born in 1907, Yo?unoluk village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo vilayet "In 1915, we fled to the mountains through the forests. They killed my fath...

Gabriel Gabrielyan, born in 1914, Annavan village, Van Vilayet, Turkey. "We migrated to Baghdad in 1915, then to Armenia in 1926. For 50 years, I work...

Hripsik Latoyan, born in 190, city of Bitlis, Turkey. "They killed everyone, we fled through the deserts of Baghdad. I was taken half-dead to the Bagh...

Avag Harutyunyan, born in 1911, Keghis village, Bitlis Vilayet, Turkey "The genocide deprived us of everything. Those who stayed alive managed to pre...

Vasil Sukiasyan, born in 1912, Harin village, Van Vilayet, Turkey. "When the massacres began, my father was not at home, my grandfather and grandmothe...

Hripsime Haji-Sargsyan, born in 1911, Tavshanli village, Kutahya Vilayet, Turkey. "I was a child, but I remember how the Turks came and killed my gran...

Varsenik Lagisyan, born 1908, Yo?unoluk village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo Vilayet. "We will either kill, or be killed ? that was what we thought about what...

Remella Amlikyan, born in 1905, Vagif village, Musa Dagh, Aleppo Vilayet. Gohar Amlikyan recalled of her mother, Remella, that "she'd always tell me...