Keghetsik Hagopian-Zourikian Passes Away in Montreal at 107
OTTAWA, Canada—One of Canada’s last survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Keghetsik Hagopian-Zourikian, passed away in Montreal on Sept. 26, at age 107.
Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian was born in Bursa, near Constantinople in 1909. In 1915, after losing her father during the genocide, she was subsequently separated from her mother and siblings at a young age and was forced to grow up as an orphan in Greece and Egypt. After marrying her husband in Egypt, she eventually settled in Canada with her three children.
“Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian was fortunate enough to have lived in a country such as Canada, where the pain that was inflicted upon her and millions of other innocent Armenians was courageously recognized as a genocide by the Canadian Senate in 2002, the House of Commons in 2004, and the Government in 2006. Furthermore, Mrs. Hagopian-Zourikian lived long enough to see the Canadian House of Commons, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, unanimously pass Motion 587, declaring the month of April as Genocide Remembrance Condemnation and Prevention Month,” read a part of a statement released by the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) on the occasion of her passing.
“Armenian Genocide survivors, living examples of resilience, rebirth and fortitude, found themselves in a world that stood passive as the perpetrator denied its past and intentionally misconstrued history with impunity,” read another part of the statement.
The ANCC also mourned the passing of Hagopian-Zourikian and expressed its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased.
The ANCC is the largest and the most influential Canadian-Armenian grassroots human rights organization. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout Canada and affiliated organizations around the world, the ANCC actively advances the concerns of the Canadian-Armenian community on a broad range of issues and works to eliminate abuses of human rights throughout Canada and the world.
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I will remember her when gazing up at Mt. Ararat and hopefully visiting Ani now possible as military permits have been abolished. I still hope the border will be open soon so Armenians can easily see the places their ancestors were deported from.