The Children of That Generation
“April 24, 1915, what once bore Western Armenia has been wiped off the map,and from the blood of one and a half million Armenians the flowers once again were lit with a furious flame and […]
“April 24, 1915, what once bore Western Armenia has been wiped off the map,and from the blood of one and a half million Armenians the flowers once again were lit with a furious flame and […]
Dear Harry, In the early twenties, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a little Armenian boy was playing with his brother and sisters in the snow. That little boy was you, Harry. Like so many Armenians, your […]
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.— When Ardemis arrived in New Britain, Conn., as a 15-year-old orphan of the Armenian Genocide, she immediately set about putting her life in order. The Hairenik, a prominent newspaper that served the […]
Seventy-five years ago, in Normandy, France, so many American soldiers fought in hell for a heavenly cause, and so many were killed thousands of miles away from home. The Normandy American Cemetery, which overlooks Omaha […]
When I go to Armenia they treat me as if I were from the Diaspora and when I go abroad they treat me as if I were a Turk. Here they see me as an […]
I started drawing and painting as a child. Every time I had a “time out” (and trust me there were many), my mom would open the door in my pink gingham-draped bedroom after, only to […]
Matthew Karanian was about eight years old when he asked for his first camera—a vintage Brownie from his father. “Back then, we were using film,” he recalled one afternoon during a visit to the Hairenik […]
I was ten years old, and I had been hearing sermons on sin and redemption for seven years. The sermons were delivered from behind a pulpit by my uncle Vartan. The pulpit was neither attached […]
One century ago, on April 22, 1919, my grandfather placed a classified advertisement in the Hairenik, the leading Armenian language newspaper in the United States. His message was simple, and it was direct. I am […]
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 […]
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