Oral history interview with Aghavni Hovsepian [electronic resource], 1975.

Biographical Note

Born in Harpoot, Turkey 1888.

Scope and Contents

Aghavni Hovsepian discusses her youth in the Ottoman Empire, her family's life there, the 1895 massacre in Harpoot, the 1909 massacre in Adana, her emigration to Philadelphia, and her family's life in the United States. The end of the recording contains a short segment of a man who declines to be interviewed for the oral history project.

Subjects

• Armenian Americans--Biography.
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923--Personal narratives.
• Armenians--Turkey--History--20th century.
• Hovsepian, Aghavni,--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Takooshian, Dorothy, interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Armenian Education Council, 2005.