Eliza: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

by Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy and El Aharon (Der Melkonian) Sachaklian

Eliza was born in the Ottoman Empire to a family of merchants and parish priests. They lost their ancestral home in Aintab during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895-96 and resist the Turkish mobs at the siege of Dortyol during the Adana massacres of 1909. These life-and-death struggles began the family's lifelong affiliation with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. After her marriage to Aharon Sachaklian, who had become a naturalized American citizen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909382558
• ISBN13: 9781909382558
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Gomidas Institute Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"