Remembering the Genocide

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Listening to Berjouhe Tutain's story, I found myself moved as she described her plight and how the Young Turks eventually came and sent her family away to be deported. Her younger brother was taken away along with another Armenian boy. Her mother would later find her son at a death camp, where she promised to come back for him and free him from his prison and help him escape death. I find that it's interesting to hear other survivor's stories, because while Forgotten Fire is a nice text to read, it only offers one story, that story comes from one narrator. This story gives me another view on the Armenian Genocide, which this woman's story was much less brutal than most of the story in Forgotten Fire. In her story, she was deported on an ox cart, compared to Vahan and his family being forced to walk through the sweltering desert, without food or water. This is what I think of Tutain's story and her survival through the Genocide.

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