Family Histories
A Snapshot from the Past: A Lost Photograph of Soghomon Telirian
The following is an email we received last September, containing a lovely story of a very special photograph. The email came from a longtime reader of the paper, Violet Dagdigian of Westford, Mass. and was in regards to a photograph of Soghomon Tehlirian, the Armenian revolutionary who assassinated Talaat Pasha on March 15, 1921. As it so happens, Tehlirian was the godfather of Violet’s aunt, Annette, who kept this photograph of him and his fiancée. We felt our readers would enjoy reading the
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Violet, several years ago this same Tehlirian family photograph similarly signed, with three others, came into my possession. Realizing their national significance, I donated them to the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institite in Yerevan. The images and story should be available on the AGMI website.
Thank you to all who responded…..As a result of the Genocide, my grandmother was an orphan at age 13, and my father , too, and his brothers were orphaned after their parents and sister were butchered. So many other families in our Cleveland community also had sad stories of those tragic Genocide days…..My aunt has carried these tragic stories with her throughout her life, and she was uplifted by the response to the page in the Weekly! Thank you!
I hope Project SAVE will contact you, Violet, about the photograph. Indeed, Tom was a staunch supporter of Project SAVE, too.
Was that guy who assasinated Talat Pasha, I mean, Solomon Tehlirian? That is nice to hear that the Armenians never forget their murderer kins!…Everybody should know a planned criminal doubles the penalty….Some will refer the Armenians’ biased claims on genocide. They should g oto below link and learn what really happened between Armenians and their state, Ottoman Empire.
http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2006/06/sukru-server-ayas-collection.html
Your photo was taken in Paris when Soghomon and Anahid visited in 1924 as newlyweds.
Another photo from this set can be seen in my book on Tehlirian, “Operation Nemesis – The Assassination
Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide.” Soghomon Tehlirian was an extraordinary
man and you are blessed to have had him touch your life.
Orhan Tan
I thought that you will stop your subscription to the Armenian Weekly.
Did you change your mind, or is someone paying you to post these comments.
You cannot revise history.The murderer was Talat Pasha and Tehlirian was found not guilty.
Vart Adjemian
Soghomon Tehlirian is indeed a gigantic hero for murdering Talaat Pasha (the chief architect of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocides).
Orhan Tan,
Even after spending all this time reading the educational articles on the Armenian Weekly, you haven’t learned one single thing. You still continue to remain the same imbecilic, hardcore genocide denialist that you’ve always been since day one.