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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 ...
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Josiane Fischer

Parantzem and Sembad Vezirian are standing up. The children on the photo : Hagop and Aghaton, their first two sons. Sembad disappeared during the Armenian genocide. Parantzem and their five children, Hagop, Aghaton, Megherditch, Aroussiak and Meline, took refuge in France.
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