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2pm Sunday
ABC Radio Program on Armenian Genocide
Repeat 1pm Thursday
Souren's Story: a voice recovered from Armenia's bitter past
From the cover of a book which Souren Antoyan later wrote. Loosely translated the title of the book is 'On Self-Creation'.
In 1921, when he was six years old, Souren Antoyan was sent from his occupied homeland of Armenia to spend the next eight years in orphanages, including the Australian-run Ghazir Orphanage, in Beirut.
Souren Antoyan's story is testimony to the enduring legacy of Armenia's bitter and unresolved 20th century history, and sheds new light on the little-known role that Australia played in the international relief effort that emerged in the wake of the Armenian genocide.
Producer Cara Rosehope travelled to Lebanon, where a chance meeting with 93-year-old Souren Antoyan uncovered this antipodean connection - in Souren's own life but also within the wider play of history in the period after World War One.
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