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“Resistance and rescue during the Armenian Genocide: the story behind a photograph: Marsovan, 1915-1918”

Friday Nov 4 at 4pm  Stuart Hall 102, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave,  University of Chicago

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“Memories of a lost Armenian home: Photography, Anatolia College and the story of an Armenian family in Anatolia”

Sunday Nov 6 at 3pm AGBU/Chicago Center  free admission. reception following talk.


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 Drawing on memoirs, letters and missionary accounts, Prof Marsoobian chronicles the history of an entire region through his own family story and that of Anatolia College, an institution vital to the life of the historic Armenian province of Sepastia. His talk is richly illustrated with dozens of photographs and drawings from the family collection, tracing his family's history from Sivas to relocation in Marsovan, where his grandfather Tsolag became official photographer for both the college and governor of the province