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George Aghjayan
George Aghjayan is the Director of the ARF Archives and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Central Committee of the Eastern United States. Aghjayan graduated with honors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Mathematics. He achieved Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries in 1996. After a career in both insurance and structured finance, Aghjayan retired in 2014 to concentrate on Armenian related research and projects. His primary area of focus is the demographics and geography of western Armenia as well as a keen interest in the hidden Armenians living there today. Other topics he has written and lectured on include Armenian genealogy and genocide denial. He is a frequent contributor to the Armenian Weekly and Houshamadyan.org, and the creator and curator westernarmenia.weebly.com, a website dedicated to the preservation of Armenian culture in Western Armenia.
Latest posts by George Aghjayan (see all)
- MP Andranik Kocharyan proposes a list of victims of the Armenian Genocide – why and how? - April 17, 2024
- Genealogy: “Useful in the toolkit of genocide education” - May 24, 2023
- Levon Boghosian: A story “both unique and universal” - March 9, 2023
Dear George,
What a wonderful text. Thank you.
It is because of your steadfast dedication and your most commendable research that the real stories about every “Aram Vartabed” are being presented to us and to future generations. Those of us who are so honored and so privileged to benefit from your on-going studies are all-too-aware that your “fiction” is all-too-close to the Truth about what took place in countless places and against countless individuals.
I join your family and friends in wishing you the best of health and safe travels as you persevere in identifying our historical remains and then in validating the reality.
In the Armenian Church, we use an expression when describing the remaining stones of a church, chapel, monastery and shrine: “I vaghouts shapatatsadz”, which means, “The holy place entered into a sabbatical rest a long time ago.” We can never say that the place has been “destroyed” (even when it appears that one stone does not remain atop another). Instead, we await an opportunity to “awaken” those places which are in a “sabbatical rest” at the moment because we know that the Spirit which once imbued those locations continues to inspire all of us.
George, thanks to your tremendous efforts, we are able to identify and indeed to rejoice in knowing that there are many more places which are just resting, and awaiting to be reawakened in the conscience of our community.
All my best, with all our collective thanks!
George
Thank you for this moving story. I know there are many Turks who are learning that they are part Armenian. I can’t imagine their pain. There is beauty, along with the pain, in this story.
George Aghjayan, please continue writing. What a beautiful piece of work. We appreciate what you are accomplishing.