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EYEWITNESS: 100-YEARS-OLD ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVOR TELLS ABOUT MIGRATION FROM ISTANBUL
10:17, 8 April, 2015
LENUGHI, 8 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. There was an old photo hung on the
wall, in which the Armenian Genocide survivor Ovsanna Mirkhanyan was
surrounded by many grandchildren. Five children are abroad. Ovsanna
lives with her great grandson in Lenughi village of Armavir province
and her relative from neighboring house frequently visits her to care
and feed.
She was born in Istanbul in 1915. She was connected with her birthplace
only by the vague memory of the migration.
"They took the people and taking them away, everybody was picked
up his "Nafari" and ran away. A lot of people got lost; I was too
small, when my grandfather and grandmother took me up at night and
ran away to cross the border saying: "We put you on our shoulder,
crossed the border, as the Turks don't capture us at night," the
eyewitness-survivor tells.
Khatun, the mother of heroine of our history passed away because of
illness and her father married another woman. His grandmother Khanum
and grandfather Hakob hadn't left her and moved her to Aleppo from
Istanbul.
"They brought me to Aleppo, where I grew up. I was a disabled person
and I was operated on my leg in Aleppo," Ovsanna says. Congenital
defect-born woman points out that she was able to stand up in Aleppo
and was healed due to the efforts of her grandmother and grandfather
efforts.
By her assessment everything was Armenian in Aleppo. Communicating
with her neighbors she understands Turkish and Kurdish. Wheat pilaf,
harissa, spas were a part of the meal prepared by grandmother. (THE
FULL VERSION OF INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)
Interview by Tatevik Grigoryan and Anahit Minasyan
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/800779/eyewitness-100-years-old-armenian-genocide-survivor-tells-about-migration-from-istanbul.html
10:17, 8 April, 2015
LENUGHI, 8 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. There was an old photo hung on the
wall, in which the Armenian Genocide survivor Ovsanna Mirkhanyan was
surrounded by many grandchildren. Five children are abroad. Ovsanna
lives with her great grandson in Lenughi village of Armavir province
and her relative from neighboring house frequently visits her to care
and feed.
She was born in Istanbul in 1915. She was connected with her birthplace
only by the vague memory of the migration.
"They took the people and taking them away, everybody was picked
up his "Nafari" and ran away. A lot of people got lost; I was too
small, when my grandfather and grandmother took me up at night and
ran away to cross the border saying: "We put you on our shoulder,
crossed the border, as the Turks don't capture us at night," the
eyewitness-survivor tells.
Khatun, the mother of heroine of our history passed away because of
illness and her father married another woman. His grandmother Khanum
and grandfather Hakob hadn't left her and moved her to Aleppo from
Istanbul.
"They brought me to Aleppo, where I grew up. I was a disabled person
and I was operated on my leg in Aleppo," Ovsanna says. Congenital
defect-born woman points out that she was able to stand up in Aleppo
and was healed due to the efforts of her grandmother and grandfather
efforts.
By her assessment everything was Armenian in Aleppo. Communicating
with her neighbors she understands Turkish and Kurdish. Wheat pilaf,
harissa, spas were a part of the meal prepared by grandmother. (THE
FULL VERSION OF INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)
Interview by Tatevik Grigoryan and Anahit Minasyan
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/800779/eyewitness-100-years-old-armenian-genocide-survivor-tells-about-migration-from-istanbul.html