Ashot Ohanyan and his family were deported from Bursa in 1914. On the way to the deportation, his mother and younger sister were killed, then he escaped and ended up in an orphanage. An American inspector kidnapped him on a coal ship to Greece. From there, a few years later, they were transferred to Egypt to learn a trade, where he was forcibly conscripted into the British army. He was seriously injured, losing an arm and an eye. In 1947, he returned to Soviet Armenia with his family, where in 1949 he was sentenced to exile on absurd charges, leaving his wife and young children alone.
2025-04-24
Telecast type: Լուր Ռեպորտաժ
