iwitness: Armenian Genocide 1915
Public Art Installation | Centennial Commemoration
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But I couldn't cry. I was covered with blood from the other bodies on top of me, but I couldn't cry. If I had, I would not be here today.
- Sam Kadorian
"Don't let them take me", she said. "Don't let them take me."
- Edward Bedikian
They raped him! Raped! Just like that. Right in front of us.
- Kristine Hagopian
By early spring of 1915, he and his father had gone to the vineyard to cultivate the vines for the following year, when abruptly a villager ran by to warn his father not to return to his house…
I remember it was early April, 1915, when all the men in Kharpert went to work, but never returned. My father was among them and we heard he was taken to a jail in Mezre. My sister went to see him.