Oral history interview with Khachadoor Pilibosian [electronic resource], 1969.

Scope and Contents

Born in Yozgat, Turkey; childhood recollections, father leaves for United States for better opportunity; early signs of planned massacres of Armenians, collecting men and slaughtering, drafting and using for black labor to build railways and roads, burning houses to assure no one left behind, collecting arms; deportation; arriving Malatia; women commit suicide to avoid rape, plundering, Turkish gendarme demand a freedom fee, kidnapped by a Kurd, working as shephard to a Kurdish family, physical and mental abuse, recollections of Kurdish lifestyle, conversions of Armenians into Islam, escape, hears about his father in America, corresponds but father does not believe, asks for proof that he is his son, moves to the United States.

Subjects

• Armenian Americans--Biography.
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923--Personal narratives.
• Armenians--Turkey--History--20th century.
• Azadian, Edmond Y., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Keshishian, Madlene, interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Parsegian, Vazken, interviewer.
• Pilibosian, Khachadoor--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Armenian Education Council, 2004.