YEREVAN, 22 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. The Huffington Post has published stories of inheritors of Armenian Genocide victims and survivors. The newspaper has covered the Tomasyan family in Istanbul and how the family overcame the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, transmitting the stories of their ancestors to the future generations.

 “Mari Tomasyan was born into a family of ghosts. In 1915, just a few years before she was born, Ottoman Turks forced 35 of her relatives on a death march toward the Syrian Desert. Only a few survived. Now, at 95, she clings to the past with a quiet strength. As almost a century of memories begin to fade with age, she hands down the past to her own children and grandchildren,” this is how the article begins, as “Armenpress” reports.

Despite Turkey's impassioned insistence that there was no genocide, instead labeling the Armenians as casualties of warfare and traitors who tried to bring down the Ottoman Empire, Armenians are making sure the legacy of those killed lives on. With only a small number of genocide survivors still alive, their kin are passing on the history in hopes that such a massacre will never happen again.

Tomasyan's 65-year-old son, Yetvart, has devoted his life's work to the Armenian cause. It's why he founded Aras Publishing House 22 years ago, publishing solely Armenian literature in both Armenian and Turkish. "Armenians in this country were described as worse than worms. What could we do? We had to express ourselves. The only weapons we have are our books, literature, culture and art,” he remembered, thinking back to when he was younger.

For Yetvart Tomasyan, April 24 -- the same day a century ago that authorities arrested 250 of Constantinople's best and brightest intellectuals in the first wave of deportations -- is an opportunity for the country to move forward and make real progress. But he fears it may be awhile before Turkey truly atones for its past.

"For a hundred years, even though we suffered, we tried to live our lives. But we are living with blood on this land,” he mentioned.