(Philadelphia Inquirer) For Lorig Baronian, the Armenian Genocide is a century-old piece of history that still affects her life today.
The descendant of survivors of the genocide, Baronian grew up hearing about the atrocities her ancestors experienced: her great-grandparents meeting in an orphanage after seeing their entire families killed in front of them; her great-grandmother giving birth to her daughter on a ship while fleeing the genocide; her ancestors fleeing to Palestine, Romania, Lebanon, and eventually the United States for safety.
The trauma of the Armenian Genocide carries on through each generation, and for over a century, the Armenian diaspora has been fighting to get the world to recognize the atrocity of the genocide. Now, they’re trying to get Mehmet Oz, Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, to acknowledge it.
