As I prepare to write my next novel based on the life of my grandfather, an Armenian orphan who survived genocide and rebuilt his life in America, I find myself thinking often about a man I never met. Rev. Aharon Shirajian. To thousands of Armenian children, he was simply “Hayrig.” Father. During the darkest years of the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath, Hayrig founded and led the Armenian Orphanage of Aleppo. He was an Armenian Evangelical p…
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