Oral history interview with Aghavni Hovsepian 1975
- Name
- Hovsepian, Aghavni (Interviewee)
- Takooshian, Dorothy (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Aghavni Hovsepian 1975
- Abstract
- Aghavni Hovsepian discusses her youth in the Ottoman Empire, her family's life there, the 1895 massacre in Harpoot, the 1909 massacre in Adana, her emigration to Philadelphia, and her family's life in the United States. The end of the recording contains a short segment of a man who declines to be interviewed for the oral history project.
- Collection Name
- Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive
- Subjects
- Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; Armenians--History--20th century.--Turkey; Armenian Americans; Hovsepian, Aghavni
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Born in Harpoot, Turkey 1888.
- Note
- Interviewed by: Dorothy Takooshian, Emerson, N.J. Home for the Armenian Aged, on November 17, 1974 and January 10, 1975.
- Parsegian collection: URN 234.
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of: Adrian Parsegian and the Armenian Educational Council
- Language
- Armenian
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
- Catalog Record
- 13713209
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-dqev-tt69
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.