Certificates for the Armenian Genocide Ovsana Kalostian (Turkey) : God let me live so that recount the story .................................................. . This is no longer short of older women and go out to roam in Marseille anymore , they lean on the stick and became a Companion of her daughter and grandchildren . When ask her about her childhood , to become alert to the maximum grades. Ovsana Kalostian of 106 years and is one of the last survivors of the Armenian Genocide that took place in 1915 . Since it carries the memories of those days , is well aware of the role that should be played after the passage of almost a century on the incident . She says : { God let me alive during this period so that I could storytelling } . Ovsana retained the full set of pictures and details which describes vividly and talk about the feelings of horror and the massacres and deportation of the people of the Ottoman Empire . I was born in 1907 in Adapazari , a town located about 100 km east of almost Constantinople ( Istanbul Contemporary ) . I grew up in a beautiful home against the church and the neighborhood was composed of three floors and a garden. That was the city an important center for trade and craft work for the Armenian people , who numbered about 12,500 people in 1914 , equivalent to almost half the population . Describes Ovsana : { even the Greeks and the Turks were speaking Armenian language } . Are the same learned some Turkish words during the deportation. Her father owns a bar are also used Ksalh hairdresser and dental treatment . They go there every morning before school time to drink tea . Ovsana was eight years old in 1915 , when the government ordered the girl } { Turkey deported Armenians . Frederick , who says her grandson Remember the story of the family : { happened in a Sundays and Ovsana mother was returning from church. The priest was announced just as the need to evacuate every neighborhood in the city during the three days } . Flowed into groups walk towards the south and east. Reached Ovsana and her parents , brother and uncles and aunts and first cousin to Eskisehir , where he was Tkdashm to seek a train to transport livestock. Thus sent thousands of Armenians to the deserts of Syria . But the train stopped in the province where opium Kara Hissar was ordered to build a temporary camp there . Sorting centers were located at a distance a little farther had become overcrowded. Has not been finally distributed before the passage of two years , then fled to hide in the countryside. Remember Ovsana she felt concerned about the young girls who were abducted by the thieves were working as agents of the Ottoman army . After the armistice in 1918 , she returned Ovsana and members of her family and found their house burned and destroyed and then expelled again at the hands of the Turks neo- occupiers in the city. Mass migration that brought them initially to Constantinople . In 1924 , he emigrated uncles and aunts Ovsana and first cousin to the United States . Four years later , migrated to Marseille Ovsana boat . Remember : { we got when it was snow falling in December } . Today , descended 10% of the population of Marseille from people who survived the Armenian Genocide . Ovsana earned some money by working in the field of textiles and married Xavi Kalostian , the sole survivor of the family had been slaughtered . Then opened a shop and bought an oriental piece of land and settled there. Frederick says : { taught Armenian language , but we recounted stories about its history at a later stage } . Ovsana working in cultural associations and participate in the protest movements . Do not tire of fighting campaigns to deny the Armenian Genocide . Frederic explains : { denial of genocide denial means the words of my grandmother } . .................................................. ...... Source Armenian news
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:48:24 +0000
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