Մերձավոր Արեւելքի ամերիկյան նպաստամատույցի որբանոցներն ըստ Մեծ եղեռնը վերապրածների հուշապատումների

Abstract

There are a lot of episodes of testimonies about the collection of orphans, orphanages, and guardianship of children in the series of memoirs "Survivors of the Armenian Genocide". Against this background, the lion's share of this evidence relates to Amerkom's trusteeship. In addition to developing long-term activities in the city of Alexandropol, Amerkom created a network of branches of shelters in Western Armenia, where a large number of Armenians lived. One of these orphanages was established in Sivaz and Kajuni Karageozyan writes about this in his memoirs. During the First World War, the Turkish government founded orphanages to appease society. Mihran Ghazaryan, who was deported from Bitlis, lived in the Alexandropol orphanage of Amerkom prior to his adoption. Hovhannes Trchunyan-Hovhannisyan worked in the orphanage at the Cossack post. He had miraculously escaped from the massacre before that and ended up in the Erznga orphanage, and after that - in the Erzrum orphanage. Methods and materials: We have used comparative-historical research, survey, combination, inductive and deductive methods.The article is based on the series of memoirs "Survivors of the Armenian Genocide" and analysis of materials available in the literature.