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Drops in the Ocean: My Family’s Escape from the Baku Pogroms
Special to the Armenian Weekly
I do not know how my fate would have unfolded in Azerbaijan, if all that happened to our family—and the Armenian people who once inhabited it—had not happened.
But I can say with certainty that I do not want to know. I do not see myself there anymore. We were exiled from our country, fr
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Wow, it feels like I read about my family. My mom was also a doctor, but general therapy. And she worked at polyclinic #8 also for more than 40 years. She managed to survive and got a chance to leave USSR and come to NYC. She passed away 5 years ago…
Deeply moving. A lesson for today’s Europe. Thanks, and some tears, from an Englishman who is proudly 3/16 Armenian, Minas family of the diaspora.
Please send your story to the BBC program HARDtalks to Stephen Sacker and his gangs … who questioned our Polite, Honest foreign minister, Zohab Mnatzaganian…Who did not answer his aggressive question about Baku’s criminal acts against 400.000 Armenians during the years1988-89…
“And yet, my mother still believed all would work out.” I read that sentence and felt a chill. So like the reason so many of my people did not leave Germany in the late 1930’s. Tragedies both. But now we have our homelands back, Armenians to Armenia and Jews to Israel. I pray we both stay in them always.
Correction: In contrast to the Jews, Armenians now have only the smaller portion of their historical homeland. 2/3s have been stolen by the Turks and now form eastern provinces of Turkey. This is the major difference in the Armenian and Jewish tragedies.
God Bless Albert & Ivette Asriyan & Family from their survival from the Barbaric Azeri Turks from Baku. We thank their story of survival which the world should read. We wish their family the best.
Thank you for your kind wishes, dear friends. ❤️
Please send your story to the BBC program HARDtalks to Stephen Sackur and his gangs … who Questioned our Polite, Honest foreign minister, Zohab Minatzaganian…Who dod not answer his aggressive question …about Baku’s criminal acts against 400.000 Armenians during 1988…
Dear Ivette! Thank you very much for sharing this link! It feels like I read about my Armenian neighbors and friends in Baku back in the days. Unfortunately, I witnessed lots of barbarities committed by Azeris between 1988 and 1990 in Baku, Azerbaijan. As Psalm 94:15 NET says: For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated. God Bless you and loved ones!!