Mary Vardanyan, 112-Year-Old Armenian Genocide Survivor, Passes Away

Mary Vardanyan, 112-Year-Old Armenian Genocide Survivor, Passes Away

Mary Vardanyan, one of the last known survivors of the Armenian Genocide, has died at the age of 112. The news was announced by her granddaughter, Natalie Vardanyan, in a Facebook post. Vardanyan was born in the city of Aintab in Cilicia. Her earliest childhood memories were marked by the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, memories that remained with her throughout her life. Together with the surviving members of her family, she found refuge in A…

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Mary Vartanian, one of the last living survivors of the Armenian Genocide, has passed away at the age of 112, according to her granddaughter, Natalie Vartanian, who shared the news of her passing over the weekend on Facebook. Born Mary Ouzkoushian in Aintab, in historic Cilicia, on August 17, 1914, she came into the world just before the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman Empire’s campaign against its Armenian population that killed an estimate…