Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian one of the last Armenian
Genocide survivors in Montreal, Canada, passed away on September 26 at the age
of 107. Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian was born in Bursa, near Constantinople in
1909. In 1915, Hagopian’s father was taken into the Turkish military, and then
killed for being an Armenian. She was subsequently separated from her mother
and siblings at a young age and grew up as an orphan with only one of her
sisters, until her sister fell ill and they also separated. (Işıklar içinde yatsın. HYETERT)
Her journey as an
orphaned refugee took her to Greece and Egypt. After leaving the orphanage she
worked as a domestic helper in a Jewish household in Egypt. Hagopian eventually
met and married another orphan from the Armenian genocide who was living in
Beirut as a refugee. They started a family in Egypt and immigrated to Canada
with their three children. Hagopian tracked down and met her mother only
decades later since their forced separation as a child.
She is survived by nine grandchildren and eighteen great
grandchildren.
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