Our latest article presents the collection of the Savoulian family, who were natives of Sivas/Sepasdia. Only a few members of the family survived the horrors of the Armenian Genocide. One of them was Manouel Savoulian, who fled to Greece. There, he started a family and created a new life for himself in the Dourghouti (Fix) neighborhood of Athens.
During the Second World War, Nazi Germany occupied Greece. The occupying forces, under the pretense of searching for resistance fighters, regularly organized mass arrests of locals, many of whom were then executed or imprisoned without justification. In August 1944, Manouel Savoulian was arrested in the Dourghouti neighborhood and shipped off to Germany, where he died about a year later.
This page tells the story of Manouel Savoulian, who witnessed two great human tragedies.
Here is the link to the
page:
https://www.houshamadyan.org/oda/europe/savoulian-collection-gr.htmlThe article was translated into English and Turkish respectively by Simon Beugekian and Tomas Terziyan.
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