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Aline Ohanesian

Aline Ohanesian

Aline Ohanesian was a 2012 finalist for the PEN Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction and The Glimmer Train Award for New Writers. Her first novel, The Exile, is forthcoming in 2014. She writes because humanity and its meaning-making machines, its stories, fascinate her. You can find out more about her and her fiction at www.AlineOhanesian.com.
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  2. Intriguing account of your trip to Sepastia (prefer original names)especially with the Turkish couple. I enjoyed every word. I am drawn in to anything of my heritage – both parents born in Gesaria.
    I look forward to your upcoming novel.
    Margaret (Peggy) Merjanian (maiden name Sahagian)

  4. I would like to find where my family lived in Diaybekir. How do I go about this? None of the Boyajians seem to know. Plz answwer.

  5. How I wish I was with you visiting Sivas. My paternal grandfather and his family were from Sivas. His brother and mother were killed. I have heard endless stories through my father as I was a child when my grandfather passed away.
    Can’t wait to read your book. good luck.

    • Not sure if there is any real connection. I read your post. My grandfather was Aharon Malkassian (spelling may have been diffferent). My grandmother was from Zara. Her maiden name was Meldonian.
      Aharon was educated at Robert College and ended up in Africa. I am in California.

  6. Aline, you are an extraordinary writer and creative language flows through your pen. Chilling stuff and can’t wait to read your whole book.
    Mania Row ( nee Hagopian)

  7. Dear Aline I visited Sivas, the home of my paternal grandparents, about 10 years ago.I enjoyed your recolections! I have many storys told by grandmother if you need info for your book. Look forward to reading your novel. Robert ohnigian

  8. Last year while travelling I took three pictures of that house in Sivas. I spoke with the Armenian gentleman who took us around about saving and preserving the stone on top but he couldn’t see how. There are very few old Armenian homes left and soon they’ll be gone.

  11. I am very touch by the story, you brought light into my heart and memories are poring out. I was born in Sivas and lived there for close to 10 years. Thank you for the fine work you did. God Bless.

  12. Hello:
    My name is Alex Nobar Yousif Artin Arakilian. I’m looking for any information regarding my great grand father Artin Arakilian. all I know about him he fled Turkey and arrived in the Sudan (Africa) in the early 1800 where he established tobacco plantation. but I wanted to know if he had brothers and sisters and family back in Turkey….how would I go about doing this…any lead would be appreciated……Thanks!,

    Alex

  13. My grandmother grew up in Sepastia before the genocide (she was 18 when embarking on the death march); her family was very wealthy and influential and lived in a large house–I wonder if it was the house you mentioned in the 8th paragraph!

  14. hello.i live in sivas and interressing about armenian history.my mother iş from divriği.tephrike is a old paulican and armenian city.i am a turk,but i think always if you didnt go this city will be better as today.sometimes come here some tourist,but first they dont tell,they armenian.after speak they trust and they say realty.please dont not wrong now.i now history and bad things about us.here is your and our city.

  15. it is good here something write.now in sivas is a few armenians.my friend vartan,his mother melek ,opticean yervant,silver artist şahin.i now they but not more.sometime i go divriği.it is a very old castle from paulican armenians.they have a center in divriği.and big armenian population.i look old buildings .your armenian stone art is perfect.and stories of olders.a armenian girl come to village of my mother.and married with a men.i now it is not a love marriage.maby her parents would save her life.their grandchilds live now in ankara.son of gobil.i dont now what means gobil,maby name of this armenian girl.and i forget.i read before.it is in 4 th century a famous christian st vlas.his grave in sivas.maby he is important for armenian people.he was killed by roman empire.i now armenian are the oldest christians in world.it was a very old and big church in sivas.this monastry was center of anatolian armenians.but it was destroyed in 1950s.but it is not interressing armenian fobi.it is for money.because this monastry was in the center and have big place.now on this place a big shopcenter.it is now in photos,books and our members.same you.and i want write here some armenian village name from divriği.maby your grandparents are from this villages.gemhu,turung,zirings,purunzur,gaynut,anzahar,norşun,komusvengi.and thanks for read,and all good wishes from sivas ,your motherland to you,all brother and sisters.maby if a armenian from sivas read this,come sivas and i help

  16. hello mirijan.where you born? akdeğirmen or bezirci? they are place old armenian with many population.

  17. Thank you for your article. I remember reading a book many years ago called “Some of Us Survived” by Kerop Bedoukian about an Armenian family from Sivas who were deported and faced massacre in 1915

  18. This, this….just almost made me cry. My family was from Pirkinik back then. My Uncle Joe is 94 (born in the US) and every year when he sees my garden he says I inherited the Perkiniksi genes because it was an agricultural area. Amazing seeing any modern images of the area.

  19. My grandmother was from Sivas. Deported in 1915.
    She survived the 200 mile trek to the desert at age 11. 4 years with a Turkish family then rescued by missionaries. Her father was a Lawyer in Sivas and one of the first to be hung with other intelligences of the town.
    My grandfather in Boston, also a survivor from Yozgat sent money for her passage at age 15. Whole thing is tragic and heartbreaking. She told me many stories of what she witnessed none of it pretty. How this genocide has been generally ignored is tragic.

  20. My Grandparents were from Sivas , I just read and confirmed my mother’s stories of Sivas . What an amazing story. I would love to learn more. Maggie thank you so much ❤️❤️You took me back 200 years if not more.

  21. Your article brought back many mixed memories and emotions. I spent my early childhood in Sebasdia with the few stories told by my grandparents, who were both Armenian orphans. Although they were raised as Kizilbash, they never forgot who they were. My grandparents and I used to walk in those streets among the old Armenian houses in Pirkinig in 1950s. I am so nostalgic now for everything Armenian I missed growing up.

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