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Know anyone killed in the genocide?

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  • Know anyone killed in the genocide?

    It seems like almost evey other Armenian I know had a family member killed in the genocide.
    My great grandmother's mother and two brothers were killed.
    Share your stories...

  • #2
    My father's family was killed in the genocide. He was one of the very few, I believe it was only 109 orphan's who came to Canada. He was one of the first group of 50 Georgetown Boys brought over to Canada by the Armenian Relief Association of Canada.

    I can only imagine the pain and horror he lived through, left without a family, lucky enough to get to an orphanage, and then make that long journey to a foreign land.

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    • #3
      My great grandfather and his brother and law were tortured to death in a Turkish fort. No details are known...the only news after that was when a Turkish official told my great grandmother "I've killed your husband", which was the cue to leave Kharpert. That's when they traveled to Damascus.

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      • #4
        And my great grand parents were all killed because of not joining Ottoman Army at the same times.

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        • #5
          All of my Iraqi Armenian friends say they have lost grandparents in that time.

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          • #6
            I know of 8 family members that were slaughtered in the Genocide, one a 7 year old boy who had his hands chopped off, another a mid-twenties Kharpert college professor who whose head was chopped off by members of the Turkish "Special Organization" bandits while he was teaching class. As I dig further and further into my genealogy I find more victims of the Armenian Genocide.

            Hovik

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            • #7
              My Grandfather from Divrig was 12 years old at the time his Mother, Father, and 2 sisters were killed. He managed to escape...I also have other relatives who lost family. Also - my grandmother saw an Uncle hanged by the Turks in Istanbul when she was a little girl - I'm not certain of the date of this event - though I suspect it occured 1915-1916 - though it may have been 1913-1914.

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              • #8
                One of my 2 grandfathers, and one of my grandmothers lost their families in the Genocide, and they were Armenian Genocide Survivors...

                My grandfather lost 5 sisters & both parents in the Genocide , he was 10.
                My other grandfather other lost both parents and all his siblings except for one brother at 14 years of age..
                My grandmother lost her parents and brothers and she & her sister survived she was 5..


                & I can continue all about our family friends, and maretal relatives & ..
                Unfortunately, few years ago, we lost the last of the Armenian Genocide Survivors of My Community !

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