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My Grandmother Veron also told how Armenians were slayed; how they sheltered about 40 people in their house as gendarmes had no right to touch our family at the governor's order.

We set out and left behind our dearest Lake Van that wept, sobbed like an abandoned orphan and called us as if saying “take me with you, I won’t stay without you, but how can I stay without you…”

"The woman offered Hakob to lie under the bedding. Soon he could hear Turks yelling and the woman’s answer who assured them the boy wasn’t in her house. In the end the soldiers went away."

"One evening, when men were away, that Turk Pasha visited them. Mother used to say he was like a family member."