Institute PublicationOpen Access
Ohanian, Daniel, 2025
Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education (publisher); Microsoft Excel database; published 15 August 2025
An open database listing approximately 130 boys and 40 girls and women who came to Canada as humanitarian refugees between 1923 and 1930: the groups known variously as the Georgetown Boys, Georgetown Girls, Fegan's Boys, Salvation Army Boys and Newham Boys. Each entry includes leads pointing to where further information about the individual can be found. It is the prosopographical companion to his Genocide Studies International article on the same migration.
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Ohanian, Daniel · Batikian, Gabriella · Garabedian, Salpi, 2023
Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education, Toronto; 828 pp.; ISBN 978-1738967209 (Ohanian, Batikian and Garabedian are compilers; with contributions by Jack Apramian, Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, John Farr and Lorne Shirinian)
Ararat Monthly and Արարատ ամսաթերթ were newsletters published by the Georgetown Boys, Armenian Genocide orphans brought to Canada from 1923, and their teacher Aris Alexanian, who used them to practise English and Armenian, share artwork and stories, report on life at their orphanage-farm, and stay connected with Armenians worldwide. At their peak they had 2,000 subscribers in more than thirty countries, releasing 15 English and at least 30 Armenian issues between 1926 and 1929. The volume marks the centennial of the initiative and gathers the dispersed remnants of the newsletters, assembled over a decade from families, libraries and archives in Canada, Armenia, Austria, France and the United States. Recovering 45 issues where only about 30 had been known.
Journal ArticleOpen Access
Adjemian, Boris · Suciyan, Talin, 2017
Études arméniennes contemporaines, No. 9 (2017), 'Jerusalem in the Making: Spaces and Communities', pp. 75–113 (Bibliothèque Nubar / AGBU); DOI 10.4000/eac.1129
Adjemian (director of the AGBU Nubar Library) and Suciyan analyze a body of 1920s–1930s photographs held in Paris to reconstruct how communal space was made in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. Reading the layered history of post-WWI refugees and orphans alongside older Armenian religious institutions in Palestine, they examine how memory shaped Armenian communal life. The essay is also methodological, reflecting on how historians can build a social history from a visual archive that recovers lives the post-genocide record otherwise forgot or ignored.
