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The Beating Heart of Artsakh: A Photo Essay
In the course of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a sudden end on November 9, Artsakh was steeped in a humanitarian disaster. The Armenian settlements of Artsakh endured persistent...
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Paving the Way
Second Lieutenant Sue Sarafian Jehl In June 1944, in London (England), General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was making the final decisions about the D-Day Invasion of...
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On the Borders in the Final Days of the War
Before PM Nikol Pashinyan signed the now infamous deal with Azerbaijan and Russia to end the Artsakh War, Azeri forces were making a push for territories which they deemed to be theirs from the...
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A Photographic Journey into the Past
WATERTOWN, Mass. — The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives constitute an invaluable repository of modern Armenian history from the late-19th century to our days. Thousands of reports,...
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Around the World in 10 Photographs
Van postcard: The Old City and the lake. Photo taken from the Citadel. WATERTOWN, Mass.—The collection of rare photographs from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives in the Armenian...
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Becoming an Armenian Citizen
The author holding his newly assigned passport On August 14, 2019, I swore an oath to become a citizen of the Republic of Armenia. It was a decision that felt so natural to me, but many of my friends...
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The Village of Pazmashen: A Study of Y-DNA Testing
Y-DNA Testing The advent of commercially available DNA testing has opened up opportunities, previously unimagined, for Armenians to learn more about their family histories. Unfortunately, most people...
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Talaat Pasha’s Assassination in the Press: Newspaper Clippings from a Century...
Editor’s note: March 15, 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Talaat Pasha, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, by Soghomon Tehlirian in Berlin. The Armenian Weekly asked Dr....
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Maral Najarian’s Harrowing Tale of Captivity in Azerbaijan
Maral Najarian pictured during her interview from her home in Lebanon (Photo provided by Linda Berberian) Editor’s Note: The following special report by Weekly correspondent Linda Berberian is based on...
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The Class Struggle in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide
The market of the city of Erzindjan (Source: Raymond H. Kévorkian/Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du Génocide, Paris, 1992, www.houshamadyan.org). Starting in the...
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‘With the Ink of Their Blood’: Lemkin’s Armenian Collaborators and the...
While it has become widely accepted in recent years that the World War I destruction of the Armenians influenced Raphael Lemkin’s work, the efforts of Armenians in support of Lemkin’s campaign to...
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A Historic Armenian Map’s Restoration Journey During the Pandemic
A low-resolution image of Mardiros Kheranian’s restored 1922 map of historic Armenia For years, every time I was in the fourth floor conference room in the Hairenik building in Watertown,...
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The Armenians of Whitinsville Project
Letter from Clara H. Lee to Arthur F. Whitin The letter pictured here (and transcribed below) is part of the collection of the Northbridge Historical Society. It was presented to Gregory Jundanian by...
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Bourj Hammoud: An Armenian City in Exile
Located on the eastern banks of the Beirut River, Bourj Hammoud is one of Lebanon’s most dynamic cities with its multifaceted residential, industrial and commercial dimensions, which connect the...
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Choices and Chances
Born on September 23, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Haig Sarafian was the only child of Puzant Sarafian and Elizabeth Kistorian, two Armenian refugees who had no other choice than to leave their...
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Love and War in Artsakh
It has already been more than a year since the 44-day war was unleashed by Azerbaijan against the Republics of Artsakh and Armenia. A war that ceased on November 9 on the basis of a trilateral...
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Sdepan Alyanakian and the ARF Archives
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives located in Watertown, Massachusetts contain a trove of photographic treasures. The process of cataloging the thousands of images is an often...
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Armenian Immigration to North America through the 1930s: A Compilation of...
Abstract Researching Armenian genealogy presents unique challenges, in large part due to the scarcity of records in the Armenian homeland and the scattering of families who survived the Armenian...
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The Female Faces of the Artsakh War
Would there be war in a woman’s world? How would men react to our decision to start a war? Would we have so many wars if women ran the world? War is not a female story. The stories of wars are mainly...
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Christmas in the Time of Genocide
Targeted for genocide and dispossession, reduced to exiles and deportees and fighting for survival and freedom, Armenians were facing the nation’s darkest moments from 1915 to 1919. Yet New Year and...
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