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**Artashes** · 11-19-2012, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by Haykakan View Post

The three-volume work about the testimonies of the survivors of the
Armenian Genocide is ready

10:00, 19 November, 2012

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS. Toward the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide the National Archive of Armenia continues publishing
important and unique documents and introducing them to the public. The
book "the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: the Testimonies of
the Survivors. Archival Documents" is already finished. The
testimonies of the survivors dated to 1916 are enclosed in the book.

In a conversation with "Armenpress" the head of the National Archive
of Armenia Amatuni Virabyan stated that there was a program organized
by the Russian Army and held in 1916-1917, which was aimed to the
discovery of the events in the Western Armenia in 1915. Amatuni
Virabyan stated: "During the liberation of the Armenian territories by
the Armenian voluntary units and the Russian Army they have seen that
almost no Armenian was left in that territories or a very small number
of people remained there. And a row of intellectuals developed a
questionnaire to discover the number of the population, income and
residents of a row of villages before the aforementioned events: the
number of the servicemen, their future fate, the date of the beginning
of the massacre and deportation, the identities of the participants of
those events, the survivors and the state of a village by 1916."

As the Head of the National Archive of Armenia stated these are
authentic testimonies, as they have been taken only a year after the
tragic events, when the memory f the people was fresh and they could
recall the names of those criminals. The testimonies spread light on
those events and it becomes clear that among the executors there have
been Turkish officials, policemen, heads of provinces and states,
Hamidian units, the Kurdish mobs, the Circassians.

The head of the National Archive of Armenia Amatuni Virabyan
emphasized the legal significance of those documents, as at the time
of their record there had not been any conversation about the Armenian
Genocide.

Thank you for info..
Being computer weak I am hoping this --- please give me words and/or numbers that I can walk into the local book store and say that they then can get these --- memories --- .
Thank you, from Artashes

**Artashes** · 11-19-2012, 11:36 PM

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Sorry, will show book store your post and see if that works.
Artashes

**Vrej1915** · 04-06-2013, 03:49 PM

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'MY MOTHER'S VOICE': A DAUGHTER'S ACCOUNT OF HER MOTHER'S SURVIVAL
by Lilly Torosyan

‘My Mother’s Voice’: A Daughter’s Account of Her Mother’s Survival

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/03/my-mothers-voice-a-daughters-account-of-her-mothers-survival/

Dr. Kay Mouradian’s novel, My Mother’s Voice, tells the biographical story of the writer’s mother, Flora Munushian, and her journey of surviving the genocide as a young teenage girl. The idea for the novel came decades later, when Munushian became ill, impelling Mouradian to write about her mother’s past. “Often I felt like a detective …

April 3, 2013

Dr. Kay Mouradian's novel, My Mother's Voice, tells the biographical
story of the writer's mother, Flora Munushian, and her journey of
surviving the genocide as a young teenage girl.

Dr. Kay Mouradian's novel, My Mother's Voice, tells the biographical
story of the writer's mother, Flora Munushian, and her journey of
surviving the genocide as a young teenage girl.

The idea for the novel came decades later, when Munushian became ill,
impelling Mouradian to write about her mother's past. "Often I felt
like a detective as I tried to piece together scenes that became
pieces of a puzzle. Researching and writing my mother's story opened
avenues of discovery and knowledge that have enriched my understanding
of life," she tells the Weekly in an interview.

Mouradian is professor emerita at the Los Angeles Community Colleges.

After retiring, she developed yoga and acupuncture strategies to
improve her health, and after her mother's illness, pursued writing
as another avenue of healing.

"There are some in the literary community who say, 'If you want to
know the facts, read a newspaper, but if you want to know the truth,
read a novel.' That statement resonated in my brain. Feeling a deep
responsibility to history, I decided to write my mother's story as
a novel to paint the truth of 1915 on a larger canvas," she said.

All of the characters in My Mother's Voice are either real or based
on real people. A couple of characters were created to reflect on the
truth of the time, Mouradian explained. "For example, Constantinople
was the center for white slavery in the early 1900�~@�s. I needed to
develop the possibility that Armenian girls could have been snared
into harlotry. Can I be specific to whom it happened? No, but the
threat was there," she said, adding that "there is an element of
truth in every scene in my mother's story."

A film based on the novel premiered at the Pomegranate Film Festival
in Toronto last October, and received Honorable Mention for Best
Documentary. It was later screened as an official selection at the
ARPA film festival in Los Angeles. My Mother's Voice serves as a
sequel to A Gift in the Sunlight, Mouradian's first novel, also about
her mother's life.

To purchase the novel, My Mother's Voice, visit Mouradian's website
at www.kaymouradian.com. It is also available through Amazon.

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