One of last Armenian Genocide survivors dies in Argentina aged 106

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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 25, ARMENPRESS. Lusine Beredjiklian – Khatcherian, one of the last survivors of the Armenian Genocide, died on  February 21, aged 106, ARMENPRESS reports, citing Prensa Armenia.  She was born on January 7, 1913 in Ayntap.

“When I remember, I cannot sleep”, Lusine Beredjiklian told in 2015, when the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated.

Beredjiklian told that her father, Abraham, was a jeweler. He sent his elder sons to Aleppo when WWI just started an later the entire family decides to go to Syria. O the way to Aleppo they were looted. Her mother, pregnant at that time, dies on the way, while Abraham dies in Damascus. After that her brothers move to Argentina, but Lusine remains in Syria with her sister until 1929, after which they also move to South America.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan