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Nanore Barsoumian
Nanore Barsoumian was the editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2014 to 2016. She served as assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2010 to 2014. Her writings focus on human rights, politics, poverty, and environmental and gender issues. She has reported from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabagh, Javakhk and Turkey. She earned her B.A. degree in Political Science and English and her M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the University of Massachusetts (Boston).
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What a beautiful article…
Heart breaking
These lost relatives still trouble us. My grandmother heard one of her 6 brothers, the youngest, survived and sent letters and even asked a prominent Armenian who could get “behind-the-lines” in the 1920’s to find him and he said he did. He was living with Turks and to continue to try contacting him would mean his death. We often wonder if he told her this because he knew her brother was dead…
Just curious ,why it took her a century to look after her brother?
Hope was the only thing they had. I remember my husband telling me about an Aunt who through her daughters of the cliff and jumped to avoid them being raped by soldiers.
touching article! My late father was a survivor from the village of sivaz in sepastia.
My grandmother was a survivor from sepastia very beautiful and heartbreaking article
Are there any records indicating the percentage of those who were ultimately found due to the ads in the newspapers? I guess not!
I remember vividly those ‘ge pndrvi’ notices, they became scarcer as the years went by and then they stopped altogether.
And now, one hundred years later, a sister looks for her Yeghig. What a consolation, she makes us aware that as long as she’s not dead her brother cannot be dead, either. Hope beyond catastrophe and even beyond life.
Nanore, your writing touches our hearts, makes us go beyond the facts, raises consciousness. I wish you have more time to write!
I still have two copies of the Hairenik Weekly in memory of Reuben Chilingarian Darbinyan. His wife Nadine was my piano teacher and friend since I was 7 years old. The History of Armenia found me because of my mention of them in my website bio.
Is there any way we can at least let her know that here in America we can make an effort to help her find him. If he’s alive and 90 years old unlikely he’s on FB, but you never know who might see a post. Any suggestions. Sometimes just knowing that other people care enough may help her.