The Story of Mgrdich Donoyan: A Journey of Survival and Identity. At eleven, Mgrdich (Mgro), as his family called him -saw his world shattered. That day began like any other. […]
Category: The Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide Survivor Story Of Gulenia Tumtumian’s Family
Gulenia Tumtumian was born in Aintab in 1898. Her life was transformed in 1915, the year she turned 17, when Turkish soldiers entered her family home and seized her brother. […]
Armenian Genocide Survivor Story of Aram Vardanyan’s Family
Aram Vardanyan had always felt the weight of history pressing against the thin pages of his family’s scrapbook. The photographs were faded, the ink barely legible, but the stories they […]
Armenian Genocide Survivor Story Of Bagdasaryan’s Family
This is the story of D. Bagdasaryan’s great-grandmother, Mary, and her parents, Khach Khatoon and Hovanes, who survived the Armenian Genocide. As recounted by Mary’s daughter, Nevart Cholakian—Khatoon and Hovanes’ […]
Armenian Genocide Survivor Family Story Of Arshak Abrahamyan
In the heart of Armenia, a nation scarred by the echoes of a tragic past, lives a family whose roots stretch back to the ancient lands of Mush and Baghesh. […]
Armenian Genocide Survivor Story of Digranouhi Khalaydjian
The brutal winds of history forever altered a family’s life in the heart of currently occupied Adana, Western Armenia (Turkey). The year was 1915, and the Ottoman Empire was in […]
Armenian Genocide Survivor Story of Talar Keoseyan’s Family
Tavit Keoseyan bravely faced the chaos of the Armenian Genocide as the world crumbled around him. He had to leave his loving wife, the light of his life, to join […]