| November 18, 2006 |
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20 Voices
Between  1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians living in Ottoman Turkey were killed. To this day, discussion of the massacres, or use of the word "genocide" in relation to them, carries grave consequences in Turkey. Last year, Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Araz Artinian took up the horrifying events in a documentary. The film's online companion, a stirring and sophisticated example of oral history, shares the stories of 20 survivors, all of whom were young children at the time. One survivor describes the problems of being born blond. Another tells of being bundled off in a caravan of oxcarts. All relate the violent destruction of their worlds: Vahe Tchorbadjian lost his parents and three sisters. Arika Dishchekenian, both her parents. Kevork Balian, both his parents. And Hagop Asadourian, whose mother died in the deportation, says that no matter how young you were when this happened, you were "not a child anymore" after it. (in Oral History) |
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