OTHER WORKS
The George Ignatius Foundation and Walter J. Karabian have provided a grant of $250 to help with this project.
Ichmeh: Its People, Customs and Landscape: A Memoir of a Genocide Survivor (complete)
ICHMEH: ITS PEOPLE, CUSTOMS AND LANDSCAPE: A MEMOIR OF A GENOCIDE SURVIVOR
by Nigoghos Mazadoorian
Translated from Armenian and annotated, with additional information, by Hagop Sarkissian
2015, 40 pages.
Nigoghos was born in Ichmeh, Province of Kharpert, in 1907. After surviving the Genocide, he came to the United States in 1924. After his marriage to Elizabeth (Yeghsapet) Aharonian, they lived in Detroit and Whitinsville, Massachusetts before settling in New Britain, Connecticut.
They had two children: Charlie Garabed and Harry Haroutiune.
Nigoghos worked most of his career at Stanley Works in New Britain from whence he retired. Stanley Works were manufac-turers of hand tools, builders' hardware, security devices, bolts, nuts, rivets and washers, power hand tools.
Nigoghos died on May 13, 1997 in New Britain.
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Character, or the Guide to Life (complete)
CHARACTER, OR THE GUIDE TO LIFE (in Armenian), by Henry Varnum, translated, with additional material, by Hovhannes H. Sarkissian, 2003.
Hovhannes H. Sarkissian translated this book by Henry Varnum in 1938, and is presented here in PDF format. Varnum wrote this book of aphorisms on one hundred
subjects.
Hovhannes H. Sarkissian was a teacher and writer from Kessab, Syria, noted in his time through
his writings in the Armenian press in Beirut, Lebanon, and in America.
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF KHACHADOOR PILIBOSIAN, compiled and annotated by Hagop Sarkissian (in Armenian), 2002.
Read PDFs by Chapter:
Introduction
Ichmeh
Genocide
Poetry
Prose
Khachadoor Pilibosian's articles, poems and stories were published in 15 Armenian-language newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad over a span of 53 years.
As a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, his autobiographical works with his thoughts and feelings on that subject are foremost. In his writings he included information about Ichmeh, the village of his origin in historic Armenia (Turkey), articles about his mother and the unusual arranged marriage with his father, about his experiences in America since his arrival in 1920 with facts and impressions of the Star Market, artist Arshile Gorky, world-famous Armenian-Egyptian cartoonist Alexander Saroukhan, and many others.
General subjects, book reviews, two children's stories in English, religious poems and poems for people and anniversaries round out the collection as well as 100 pictures.
He is co-author of the memoir They Called Me Mustafa: Memoir of an Immigrant with Helene Pilibosian, published by Ohan Press.
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