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    A DUTCH FINDS ARMENIAN ROOTS
    By Hakob Tsulikian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    03/05/2006

    On March 23, Netherlands Cinema of Amsterdam screened a new film
    titled "The History of My Name" that tells about 51-year-old talented
    entrepreneur and headmaster of Kijkduin primary school Alex Luiten,
    The Armenian Mirror Spectator reports.

    Alex was born and raised in Hague but currently lives in Terschelling
    island in the north of Holland. At the age of 19 he finds out that
    his father is an Armenian living in France, named Peltekian, who got
    to France during the WW I from Turkish town of Dortyol where he was
    born in 1912. Only at the age of 44 Alex changed his name Luiten for
    Peltekian and got to studying his roots.

    After his father's death, documents in France reveal that he was the
    son of a rich landowner and that part of his family found refuge in
    Lebanon after the Genocide.

    In the film directed by Dorothy Forman Alex tries to find answers from
    residents of today's Dortyol. The film was financed by the Dutch Fund
    for cultural broadcasts.
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