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ARARAT-ESKIJIAN GENOCIDE CONFERENCE TO UNVEIL HISTORIC RELICS
http://asbarez.com/120164/ararat-eskijian-genocide-conference-to-unveil-historic-relics/
Monday, March 3rd, 2014
A dress once owned by an orphan who survived the Adana Massacres of
1909 and was taken in by an orphanage in Hadjin
MISSION HILLS, Calif.--Relics from the Armenian genocide will be
unveiled during a conference focusing on the heroes and survivors
of the genocide at the Ararat-Eskijian museum in Mission Hills on
March 22.
Filmmaker Bared Maronian along with British journalist Robert Fisk,
Professor Vahakn Dadrian, Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Ayse Gunaysu, Missak
Keleshian, Shant Mardirossian, Dr. Rubina Peroomian and Professor
Vahram Shemmassian will take part in the daylong conference honoring
those who aided in the rescue of survivors of the genocide from 1915
through 1930.
While researching the stories of orphans of the Armenian genocide
for his documentary, Orphans of the Genocide, Maronian discovered
information regarding a dress once owned by an orphan in Hadjin
(now known as Saimbeyli), an Armenian town located roughly 125 miles
north of Mersin in Turkey. After some time, he located the dress at
the Bethel College Library in Mishawaka, Indiana.
"The dress belonged to an orphan, who survived the Adana Massacre
of 1909 and walked from Adana to Hadjin, roughly 75 miles," Maronian
said. "She found refuge at the United Orphanage and Mission in Hadjin
run by a North American Mennonite congregation."
The UOM in Hadjin was subject to continuous threats and pressure by
Ottoman authorities to cease operations. When World War I broke out,
the missionaries were all called home.
According to Maronian, in 1914 Sister Dorinda Bowman packed the orphan
dress along with an unfinished rug the orphan girls had been weaving.
"The dress, most likely worn by a 7-year-old orphan girl or a boy,
is a significant tangible remnant of the Armenian Genocide," Maronian
said. "A close look at the dress makes you wonder what the children of
the genocide went through and how only a handful resiliently survived,
while most were butchered or faced death or starvation or disease."
Roughly 1.5 million Armenians were killed during WWI during the Ottoman
Empire's reign over their homeland in what is modern day Turkey. The
Adana massacre occurred in the Ottoman Empire province of Adana in
1909, which resulted in the deaths of as many as 30,000 Armenians in
the course of a month.
The dress and rug are currently on loan by the Bethel College Library
to the Ararat-Eskijian Museum for two years.
http://asbarez.com/120164/ararat-eskijian-genocide-conference-to-unveil-historic-relics/
Monday, March 3rd, 2014
A dress once owned by an orphan who survived the Adana Massacres of
1909 and was taken in by an orphanage in Hadjin
MISSION HILLS, Calif.--Relics from the Armenian genocide will be
unveiled during a conference focusing on the heroes and survivors
of the genocide at the Ararat-Eskijian museum in Mission Hills on
March 22.
Filmmaker Bared Maronian along with British journalist Robert Fisk,
Professor Vahakn Dadrian, Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Ayse Gunaysu, Missak
Keleshian, Shant Mardirossian, Dr. Rubina Peroomian and Professor
Vahram Shemmassian will take part in the daylong conference honoring
those who aided in the rescue of survivors of the genocide from 1915
through 1930.
While researching the stories of orphans of the Armenian genocide
for his documentary, Orphans of the Genocide, Maronian discovered
information regarding a dress once owned by an orphan in Hadjin
(now known as Saimbeyli), an Armenian town located roughly 125 miles
north of Mersin in Turkey. After some time, he located the dress at
the Bethel College Library in Mishawaka, Indiana.
"The dress belonged to an orphan, who survived the Adana Massacre
of 1909 and walked from Adana to Hadjin, roughly 75 miles," Maronian
said. "She found refuge at the United Orphanage and Mission in Hadjin
run by a North American Mennonite congregation."
The UOM in Hadjin was subject to continuous threats and pressure by
Ottoman authorities to cease operations. When World War I broke out,
the missionaries were all called home.
According to Maronian, in 1914 Sister Dorinda Bowman packed the orphan
dress along with an unfinished rug the orphan girls had been weaving.
"The dress, most likely worn by a 7-year-old orphan girl or a boy,
is a significant tangible remnant of the Armenian Genocide," Maronian
said. "A close look at the dress makes you wonder what the children of
the genocide went through and how only a handful resiliently survived,
while most were butchered or faced death or starvation or disease."
Roughly 1.5 million Armenians were killed during WWI during the Ottoman
Empire's reign over their homeland in what is modern day Turkey. The
Adana massacre occurred in the Ottoman Empire province of Adana in
1909, which resulted in the deaths of as many as 30,000 Armenians in
the course of a month.
The dress and rug are currently on loan by the Bethel College Library
to the Ararat-Eskijian Museum for two years.