PBS TO SCREEN "A FAMILY ERASED" DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.11.2008 14:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A unique documentary about the Armenian genocide
will soon be released by PBS’ Frontline titled "A Family Erased",
George Kachadorian, the film director, told PanARMENIAN.Net.

"The film features my father and his sisters who recently made a
journey back to historic Armenia – now Eastern Turkey – in search
of the homes our family fled around the turn of the century. As
my family winds their way through mountain passes far, far off the
tourist track, they rely on hand drawn Armenian maps, handed down
through the generations, and the help of a Turkish speaking guide to
try and locate the streets and towns that have long since been renamed.

As international tensions flare over a new U.S. bill that would
formally acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, my father Jim and my aunts
Elaine, Marion and Georgiana embark on the adventure of a lifetime –
deep into the mountains of Eastern Anatolia on a search for their
grandparents’ homes at the epicenter of the 20th century’s first
genocide," Kachadorian said.