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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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  • Nick Miller

    Is there a record of the birth of Anikdos Oundjian’s birth in Talas approx 1876 ?

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  • Susan Sinanian Garabedian

    Comment, these are all important photos. We are lucky to have them. Susan sinanian Garabedian.

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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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  • Talas

    Talas. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.

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  • Borazlian Orphanage of Talas

    Borazlian Orphanage of Talas. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.  

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  • Borazlian Orphanage of Talas

    Borazlian Orphanage of Talas. 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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  • Armenians from Tomarza near Talas

    Armenians from Tomarza near Talas

    Armenians from Tomarza near Talas. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.

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