We walked for many days, occasionally running across small lakes and rivers. After a while we saw corpses on the shores of these lakes. Then we began seeing them along the path...
In 1909, during the Adana massacres, Turkish soldiers attacked Kessab. I was merely a boy then. They were 20,000 strong with Mausers and other artillery. ...
Yenok Manougian’s first memory of the Genocide is of his mother’s tears as their house burned. That was in April 1915. Soon after that, lead by Turkish gendarmes, his entire village...
My brother-in-law was American Consul Davis’ body guard in Mezre and the Consul himself saved my father’s life. There was a Turkish gendarme by the name of Shadhe who wanted to kill my father. ...
One morning a young Turkish man knocked on our door; negative attitude. at that moment I was in front of our house. My father had seen from upstairs the approach of the...
They took us from Hüsenig, to Mezre, to Kharpert, to Malatia and then, after a couple of days’ walk, to the shores of the Euphrates River. It was around noon when we got there and we camped. ...
We arrived in Kirkuk, the three of us together—my mother, my older sister and myself. We were hungry, barefoot, and with absolutely no belongings....
We already had been deported once, in 1915, sent towards Der-Zor. But, my uncle’s friend had connections in the government and he had us ordered back to Izmir....
Hagopian was born to an Armenian family on 20 October 1913, in Kharpert, Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. In summer of 1915, when the Ottoman soldiers rampaged through Kharpert...
Azad Dodikian’s father, Armenak Hampartsoum Dodikian, fought in the defense of Van in 1896 and then joined a group of 800 Armenian soldiers, headed by Mkrditch Avedisian, to fight the Turkish armies. ...