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Ivette Alexander

Ivette Alexander

Ivette Alexander is a writer, musician, and educator with a career spanning over 40 years in the creative and performing arts. In 1989, Ivette and her family were forced to flee Azerbaijan due to hostility and ethnic persecution of Armenians leading to the Baku Pogrom. Her previously published works can be found in several Russian language magazines and the book “Once Upon a Winter" collection of stories.
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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. “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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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…

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