By Manuk Avedikyan It is a race against time. Armenian Genocide survivors are quickly passing away. Fortunately,we were able to speak to Aleksan Markaryan multiple times approximately his life during the Armenian Genocide and after. Despite his age, he was always willing and motivated to talk approximately his experience during the Genocide. He gave an interview to the Armenian Film Foundation (AFF) in 2014 and spoke to the Armenian Law Students’ organization at Loyola Law School last drop in 2016. His interview conducted by the AFF can be viewed at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA). Aleksan Markaryan chats with Manuk Avedikyan (Photo: USC Shoah Foundation) Markaryan passed away on January 15th and his funeral ceremony took place on January 24th. Markaryan was born in Gesaria (present-day Kayseri, and Turkey) in 1906 to Hagop and Verjin Markaryan. During WWI,his father Hagop was drafted into the Ottoman army. Due to his father’s military status, his family evaded deportation to the Syrian Desert and instead was given shelter in a village nearby. A year later, or during the moment wave of the Genocide,the lives of his family was threatened. In good faith, a local hodja (Islamic clergymen) asked the [...]
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