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Karapet Hakobyan portrait Beyrouth
Karapet Hakobyan portrait Beyrouth. My grandfather was in an orphanage during the genocide. His teacher was Mihran Seraylian. Afterwards, my grandfather became a painter. He believed he was the only survivor, as he never received any information about his missing family. The only things he could remember were the names of his father (Hakob), mother (Khatun),…
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Marash Armenians – Asadour and Sirvardt (Astardjian) Doudouyan in Iskenderoun (Alexandrette), Syria 1930
Marash Armenians – Asadour and Sirvardt (Astardjian) Doudouyan in Iskenderoun (Alexandrette), Syria 1930. My maternal grandparents, Asadour Kyrakos Doudouyan b. 1899, Marash -† Sep 1970, Beyrouth, Lebanon and Sirvardt Astardjian-Doudouyan, b. 1913 Marash – † Jan 1980, Beyrouth, Lebanon were both survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916 and again in 1919-1920 in Marash. This is their engagement…
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Stephen Blackshaw
My Armenian grandparents fled from the Turks and married in Lebanon in the 1920s. My mother was born in 1927 but due to her father’s ill-health had to be looker after in an orphanage from 1932 to 1940. She recalls a lady called Miss Pherson (probably MacPherson) who then had to close the orphanage and…
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Stephen Blackshaw
My Armenian grandparents fled from the Turks and married in Lebanon in the 1920s. My mother was born in 1927 but due to her father’s ill-health had to be looker after in an orphanage from 1932 to 1940. She recalls a lady called Miss Pherson (probably MacPherson) who then had to close the orphanage and…
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Sdepan and Shenorig Keremetlian – Beirut
Sdepan and Shenorig Keremetlian in Beirut. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.
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Armenian orphans in Beirut, Lebanon – 1922
Armenian orphans in Beirut, Lebanon in 1922. These orphans were from Talas. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.
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Trvanda and Nevart Dichtchekenian – Beyrouth 1930
Trvanda and Nevart Dichtchekenian – Beyrouth 1930. Jorge Zaven Kurkdjian Private Coll. “From left to right:Trvanda Dichtchekenian, my mother, born in Hamas, died in São Paulo (married to Roupen Kurkdjian, my father)Nevart Dichtchekenian, my aunt (married to Hovsep Burunsuzian)Menuch Tilbian, cousin and almost “mother” of my mother and brothers.”
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Kurkdjian family from Kharpert – 1902
Kurkdjian family from Kharpert in 1902. Jorge Zaven Kurkdjian Private Coll. Seated, from left to right: my father’s grand-mother (Ruth) and grand-father (name unknown). Children : my uncle Kurken (1900 – 1917, Kharpert). Standing, far right, my aunt Mariam Kurkdjian (Mocesian – 1889 – 1986, Beyrouth)
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Mr and Mrs Tavitian in Beirut
Mr and Mrs Tavitian in Beirut. Kevork Donabedian Private Coll
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Mihran Damadian
Mihran Damadian (1863 – 1945), founder of the Beirut-based newspaper Zartonk. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.