I was born on August 28th, 1912, the youngest of the six children. My father was a respected, successful trade route merchant in Aintab [Celicia], Turkey and my family consisted of six children and my parents. We were a very pious, Christian family, proud and patriotic in our Armenian heritage.
Yet we were second-class citizens in Turkey. As Armenian Christians, we had three choices to exist, change our religion t... More