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MEMORIAL PLANNED TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN RELIEF LEADERS
The Fresno Bee, CA
March 4 2015
The Fresno Bee
March 4, 2015
Fresno's Armenian community hopes to recognize three prominent founders
of an organization that helped resettle about 25,000 Armenians from
World War II labor camps to America with a memorial at the Masis
Ararat Armenian Cemetery.
The late George Mardikian and Suren Saroyen and Brig. Gen. Haig
Shekerjian were instrumental in the formation of the American
National Committee to Aid Homeless Armenians, or ANCHA, said Sophie
Mekhitarian of the Mardikian/Saroyan Memorial Fund at Fresno's Holy
Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church. ANCHA and other relief organizations
coordinated the relocation of displaced ethnic Armenians from German
labor camps and from elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East in the
years following World War II.
Shekerjian, who was buried in San Francisco, died in 1966. Mardikian,
who died in 1977, and Saroyan, who died in 1995, are both buried at
the Ararat cemetery in Fresno. Mekhitarian estimates that a memorial
monument to the men will cost about $20,000. Contributions can be made
to Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church, Mardikian/Saroyan Memorial
Fund, 537 M St., Fresno, CA 93721. Details: [email protected].
http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/03/04/4408128_memorial-planned-to-recognize.html?rh=1
The Fresno Bee, CA
March 4 2015
The Fresno Bee
March 4, 2015
Fresno's Armenian community hopes to recognize three prominent founders
of an organization that helped resettle about 25,000 Armenians from
World War II labor camps to America with a memorial at the Masis
Ararat Armenian Cemetery.
The late George Mardikian and Suren Saroyen and Brig. Gen. Haig
Shekerjian were instrumental in the formation of the American
National Committee to Aid Homeless Armenians, or ANCHA, said Sophie
Mekhitarian of the Mardikian/Saroyan Memorial Fund at Fresno's Holy
Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church. ANCHA and other relief organizations
coordinated the relocation of displaced ethnic Armenians from German
labor camps and from elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East in the
years following World War II.
Shekerjian, who was buried in San Francisco, died in 1966. Mardikian,
who died in 1977, and Saroyan, who died in 1995, are both buried at
the Ararat cemetery in Fresno. Mekhitarian estimates that a memorial
monument to the men will cost about $20,000. Contributions can be made
to Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church, Mardikian/Saroyan Memorial
Fund, 537 M St., Fresno, CA 93721. Details: [email protected].
http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/03/04/4408128_memorial-planned-to-recognize.html?rh=1