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The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and NAASR Present
A Lecture by Prof. Vahram Shemmassian
Director, Armenian Studies Program, CSU Northridge
The Rescue of Enslaved Armenian Women and Children in Syria at the End of the World War I Genocide
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Sunday
May 4, 2008
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TIME:
4:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Road
Mission Hills, CA 91345
Co-sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and NAASR
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Ararat-Eskijian Museum
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Women and children constituted a special category of victims during the Armenian Genocide. Those who did not succumb to outright massacre, drowning, diseases, starvation, and exposure, became objects of rape, abduction, enslavement, forced religious conversion, involuntary marriages, economic manipulation, and other abuses.
Prof. Shemmassian's lecture will deal with efforts to rescue such victims in Syria in the immediate aftermath of World War I. More specifically, it will highlight the governments, agencies, and individuals involved in the recovery campaign; venues of and obstacles to liberation; and shelter and disposal.
At age 15, Ester was separated from her foster family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met on the road and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and made her way to America.
Vahram Shemmassian is Assistant Professor of Armenian and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996 with a dissertation entitled "The Armenian Villagers of Musa Dagh: A Historical- Ethnographic Study, 1840-1915."
A Lecture by Prof. Vahram Shemmassian
Director, Armenian Studies Program, CSU Northridge
The Rescue of Enslaved Armenian Women and Children in Syria at the End of the World War I Genocide
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Sunday
May 4, 2008
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TIME:
4:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Road
Mission Hills, CA 91345
Co-sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and NAASR
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Ararat-Eskijian Museum
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Women and children constituted a special category of victims during the Armenian Genocide. Those who did not succumb to outright massacre, drowning, diseases, starvation, and exposure, became objects of rape, abduction, enslavement, forced religious conversion, involuntary marriages, economic manipulation, and other abuses.
Prof. Shemmassian's lecture will deal with efforts to rescue such victims in Syria in the immediate aftermath of World War I. More specifically, it will highlight the governments, agencies, and individuals involved in the recovery campaign; venues of and obstacles to liberation; and shelter and disposal.
At age 15, Ester was separated from her foster family during a forced march away from her birth town of Amasia. Though she faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of many she met on the road and was forced into an abusive marriage against her will, she never lost her faith, quick wit, or ability to see the good in people. Eventually she escaped and made her way to America.
Vahram Shemmassian is Assistant Professor of Armenian and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996 with a dissertation entitled "The Armenian Villagers of Musa Dagh: A Historical- Ethnographic Study, 1840-1915."