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A Gift in the Sunlight: An Armenian Story
This interview on youtube tells a brief story about my mother's family who was deported from their ancestral home in Turkey in 1914. The two girls on the upper left, my mother Flora and her sister, were the only ones who survived.
This mp3 interview with Michael Dresser, whose Russian grandparents also lived in Ottoman Turkey, unveils Michael's deep interest in what happened to the Ottoman Armenians in 1915. The map shows Historic Armenia in its period of greatest strength and after the decimation of the Ottoman Armenian population from 1915 - 1923 the territory of Western Armenia now belongs to Turkey.
Be warned, however, there are a lot of commercials!
Youtube Interview with Kay Mouradian
This map shows the deportation routes from Turkey to the Syrian Deserts. Three-fourths of the two million deported Armenians did not survive the forced marches. This interview on youTube reveals the depth of research that went into writing the author's novel, A GIFT IN THE SUNLIGHT: An Armenian Story.
