‘We Armenians Survived’: COVID-19 Connection Draws Past to Present

ALAMEDA, Calif.—Author Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut’s second non-fiction book—We Armenians Survived! Battle of Marash 1920—consists of eye-witness accounts of civilians caught between the opposing forces of Turkish combatants against the French army. “I knew my mother’s people, the Shamlians, Topalians and Berberians of Marash, Turkey lost relatives to heartless torture before being summarily killed, but luckily they survived as did an adolescent, Lydia Bagdikian, not a family member,