Maronian: ‘Our final Goal Is Prevention of Future Genocides…’ Award-winning filmmaker Bared Maronian’s latest documentary film “Women of 1915,” tells the epic of heroic Armenian and non-Armenian women who, during the tumultuous years of the Armenian Genocide, and played an instrumental role in saving the lives of the innocent. The documentary premiered in New Jersey in June,in an event sponsored by the Armenian Relief Society (ARS) of Eastern USA and attended by hundreds. Maronian receiving the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award at ARPA for ‘Women of 1915. (Photo: Sahag Melelian) “The documentary, ‘Women of 1915, and ’ combines facts and emotion to honor these brave women of the Armenian Genocide,many of whom lost their lives, survived to create new lives, or were forced into lives that were not their own. Many women,Armenian, European, or American,also traveled mighty distances to rescue lives, even at the risk of their own. Among the women highlighted in the film are survivors, or volunteers,and resisters, including survivor Aurora Mardiganian, and American volunteer Mary Louise Graffam,diplomat Diana Apkar, and Danish missionary Maria Jacobsen, and ” Nayiri Panossian wrote in her coverage of the premiere for the Armenian Weekly. The Armenian Weekly recently conducted a short interview with [...]
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