YEREVAN, MARCH 4, ARMENPRESS. The Photographic Museum of Humanity online photo exhibition has launched the display of photos by Armenian photographer German Avagyan, who introduced the photos of remains the Armenian Genocide survivors managed to preserve. As reports “Armenpress”, the exhibition is titled “Lost Homeland”.

Avagyan took the photos of the things the Armenian Genocide survivors managed to take with themselves from their residences during the forced deportation and escape. These things are handed from a generation over to the next generation as invaluable remains.

The photo exhibits show;

Treasure box from the village of Akn (now in Turkey). During the deportation of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire the box with its owners (the family of Arakel Semirjian) made its way through Ethiopia, Sudan, and in 1946 came to Soviet Armenia;

Bone comb (inhabitants of Musa Ler village (now in Turkey), who fled to Egypt, produced such combs to earn their living. In 1946 this comb arrived in Soviet Armenia, together with its owner, Azatuhi Ter-Petrosian);

Lighter (during the Genocide Kirakos Pogosian, the owner of the lighter, fled from the Ottoman Empire to Aleppo (Syria), and then - to Beirut (Lebanon). In 1946 he repatriated to Soviet Armenia. After the death of Kirakos, his wife Ovsanna gave the lighter to his grandson Sahak Poghosian, who keeps it as the family relic.);

Coffee pot (Armenak and Varduhi Hovhannisian fled the genocide to Armenia in 1915 from Van (now in Turkey), where they lived on Aygestan street, in the center of the city. In 1917 in Armenia they had a daughter, Vanoui, whose husband was sent to the Gulag and shot;

Laced braid, which was sewn on women's headscarves in Ottoman Turkey. It belonged to Zarmina Vasilian. In 1915, she and her family fled from their home place of Kiirkhan to Aleppo (Syria). In 1946 the family moved to Armenia. All those years, the braid kept in the family as a relic. Now it is owned by Armine Dnkikian, Zarmina’s granddaughter;

New Testament, written in Turkish language by the Armenian letters. This Book depicting the life of saints belonged to an Armenian woman, Ms. Aghavni, who in 1915 with her family fled Adana, Western Armenia to Lebanon. The woman passed on the Book to her daughter, Eugene Abudurian, who in, her turn, passed it on to her daughter, Srbuhi Abudurian. The Book was being kept piously for decades, and when in 2002 the 82-year-old Srbuhi Abudurian came to Armenia, she brought it with her. Her grandfathers and grandmothers learnt the Armenian letters, however they were Turkish speaking. The Book was written specially for those people who spoke Turkish, but knew how to read Armenian letters.

Other rare exhibits have also been displayed.