Early life story of Naomi Ouzounian, 1982

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Content of their menfolk. It wouldn't take long, they will succumb to
illness dehydration, fall along the road and perish”- I don't need
to tell the gruesome details. fir, Franz Werfel told this story at
some length in the , Forty Days of MasaDagh, so did many others but
they all softened the blow, the reality was much more harsh.

The forty days of Hadjin took me and my family to a camp on the
outskirts of Aleppo, burnt to a crisp from the August sun, hungry,
thirsty, tattered, bleeding, but alive. Anger had died within us long
before. It takes energy to be angry. Only the will to live was yet
alive.

‘The*camp" where hundreds of thousands had already been thrown
together was a narrow strip of the desert, surrounded by bare hills,
The hot, humid air was filled with the stench of human refuse and
decaying unburied bodies. I couldn't breathe, ‘oh, if I could only
take a deep breath! The name of this hell was Ghatma. “Dear Lord,

I hope there is no Ghatma in the hereafter, and if there is one,
forgive my sins and do not condemn me to it," I prayed.

Aleppo was 9 hours walk away. If we could only get to Aleppo.
If not the city itself, the other camps near it, maybe we would find
the remnants of civilization there. “Maybe faith, hope, and charity
are still alive somewhere. In the middle of the night, three days later,
I felt a hand on my shoulder. I recognized the contours of the face
in the dark. He was a friend. “ Naomi," he said, "we have engaged
some Arab villagers, they will supply us with some horses. We can not
ride but they will carry our belongings and let the old , sick and
small children ride. We will have to pay them every cent we have
left, but they will not give us away and they will lead us to Aleppo.

I could not leave without letting you know.”

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An account of Naomi Ouzounian's struggles in Syria and Turkey during World War I and Hovhaness Eskijian's aid to her and her family. Typewritten (12 pages) in English. "There was a time in my life when I did not hope to live to become eighteen." -- first line.

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Title Naomi Ouzounian's struggles in Syria and Turkey during World War I, p. 2

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Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

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Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

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Title Naomi Ouzounian's struggles in Syria and Turkey during World War I, p. 1

Alternative Title Armenian orphans (supplied title)

Description An account of Naomi Ouzounian's struggles in Syria and Turkey during World War I and Hovhaness Eskijian's aid to her and her family. Typewritten (12 pages) in English. "There was a time in my life when I did not hope to live to become eighteen." -- first line.

Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Ouzounian, Naomi (personal name)

Coverage Spatial 44 North Greenwood (roadways), 76 Mountain Shadows West (roadways), Aleppo (cities), Arizona (states), Asia (continents), Der-El-Zor (cities), Illinois (states), North America (continents), Palatine (cities), Scottsdale (cities), Syria (countries), Turkey (countries), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1913/1916

Inherited Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Ouzounian, Naomi (personal name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

Rights Mehagian, Mary; Ouzounian, Naomi

Date Created 1977-02-11, 1982-04-24

Creator Mehagian, Mary (writer), Ouzounian, Naomi (writer)

Contributor Ararat-Eskijian Museum (donor), Eskijian, Luther, 1913-2007 (recipient), Eskijian, Luther, 1913-2007 (marginalia)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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Format 1 page (extent)

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Language English