Oral history interview with John Antreassian circa 1968-1977
Abstract
Born in Sepastia, Turkey, 1897; stone carving; emigration of brothers to the United States prior to deportations; farmer; description of villages and church; confiscation of guns by torture; transportation of government products to remote sites; witness of amassed corpses; return to birthplace; disaster and demolition; hiding in the mountains; Turkish identification of Armenians by examination of p enis, conversion to Islam; becoming a Turk; highway construction; escape; Communist Russia abondonment of Erzroum, Van; lamentation of lack of organized self-defense.