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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.28,0:00:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1913, the Ottoman Empire\Ncame to be ruled
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.100,0:00:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Talaat, Enver and Djemal Pasha.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.66,0:00:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under their leadership,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.10,0:00:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a national movement was orchestrated\Nto unify the Turkic people in the region,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.04,0:00:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ultimately remove\Nall non-Muslims from the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.81,0:00:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The presence of the Armenian people,\Nas well as other Christian minorities,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.85,0:00:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not conducive\Nto this new Turkish ideology,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.27,0:00:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thus the Armenians were subjected\Nto systematic decapitalization,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.87,0:00:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deportation and ultimate extermination.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.97,0:00:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over a hundred years have passed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.02,0:00:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the events that marked\Nthe start of the Armenian Genocide.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.02,0:00:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From 1915 into the early 1920s,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.07,0:00:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over 1.5 million Armenians\Nlost their lives
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.61,0:00:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hands of the Ottoman\NTurkish government.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.62,0:01:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 1.5 million lives cut prematurely,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.09,0:01:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over 1.5 million stories were never told.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.03,0:01:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm here today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.25,0:01:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell one story of\Nan Armenian Genocide survivor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.58,0:01:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my great-grandmother, Anna Tutundjian.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.39,0:01:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna's story begins in Sivas, Turkey,\Nwhere she was born in 1903.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.37,0:01:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 11 years old in the summer of 1915
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.04,0:01:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when Ottoman Turkish\Nofficials came into town
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.89,0:01:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rounded up all of the Armenians.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.36,0:01:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The men and young boys\Nwere soon separated from the group,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.22,0:01:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Anna watched
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.48,0:01:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as her father, uncles and beloved cousins\Nwere shot to death.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.30,0:01:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after the men were\Nremoved and killed,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.20,0:01:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the infant babies were taken\Nfrom their mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.49,0:01:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Anna's baby brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.28,0:02:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These babies were then buried\Nin the ground only up to their shoulders,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.04,0:02:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Anna watched\Nas horses trampled over them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.78,0:02:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that remained at the end of the day
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.97,0:02:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the women, the young girls,\Nand the elderly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.17,0:02:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But fate wouldn't spare them much longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.42,0:02:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soon after, the officials came back,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.26,0:02:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they ordered\Nall of the Armenian women,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.35,0:02:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all who remained,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.46,0:02:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they needed to evacuate their homes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.72,0:02:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna remembers helping her mother\Ntie whatever belongings they could
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.49,0:02:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into sheets,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.76,0:02:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sew their belongings into sheets.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.24,0:02:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And very soon, the women, including Anna,\Nher mother and her sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.98,0:02:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began a march, a death march,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.34,0:02:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ultimately through Turkey\Ninto and through the Syrian desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.40,0:02:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On this march, they had no food,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.47,0:02:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than whatever\Nthey had carried from home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.99,0:03:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as you can imagine,\Nit didn't last very long.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.05,0:03:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They walked all day,\Nand only stopped at night.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.47,0:03:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water was scarce.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.35,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna says that whenever they saw\Na spring or a well,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.01,0:03:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would try to go to it\Nand fill their jugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.36,0:03:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's only if they were able\Nto get away from the caravan
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.34,0:03:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without being noticed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.39,0:03:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna says she was with hundreds\Nof women - women, children alike,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.31,0:03:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she remembers\Nit took about two or three days
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.32,0:03:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the first of these women\Nbegan to drop out of formation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.20,0:03:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One morning, early one morning,\Nbefore the march began again,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.26,0:03:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna and her sisters were at a well\Nfilling their water jug.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.35,0:03:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While at the well, a man grabbed her.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.59,0:03:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna screamed and kicked and cried out,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.54,0:03:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her sisters ran back\Nto get their mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.62,0:03:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But by the time their mother returned,\Nby the time the sisters returned,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.16,0:03:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna had been taken.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.16,0:04:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna does not know\Nwhere her abductor took her,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.38,0:04:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, at 11 years old,\Nhe chose her to be his new wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.70,0:04:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He already had a wife though.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.52,0:04:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many, in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.99,0:04:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she became one of about 15 or 20\Nother young Armenian girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.27,0:04:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like herself, in his harem.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.17,0:04:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna says that he would\Npretty much leave her alone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.86,0:04:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that he also called her\Nhis "pretty one".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.47,0:04:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within the year,\NAnna had given birth to a daughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.02,0:04:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the time Anna was 13 years old,\Nshe had given birth to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.19,0:04:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although she loved her children,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.86,0:04:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,day after day, she thought\Nonly about running away,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.33,0:04:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she missed her mother and her sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.21,0:04:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wanted more than anything\Nto leave this man.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.93,0:04:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem was she was never alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.99,0:04:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was never a window of opportunity\Nfor her to do anything by herself,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.17,0:04:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.28,0:05:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girls always had\Nto accompany each other
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.86,0:05:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter where they went,\Nor what they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.88,0:05:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a girl stepped out of line,\Nor tried to do anything on her own,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.24,0:05:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the girls would squeal on one another
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.20,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in hopes of being rewarded\Nby their captor.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.88,0:05:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One night, the girl who was supposed\Nto accompany Anna to the outhouse
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.15,0:05:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was too tired to do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.45,0:05:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She let Anna go alone,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.47,0:05:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,figuring probably\Nthat Anna has two daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.91,0:05:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's going to go,\Ndo her business, and come back.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.33,0:05:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Anna took that\Nas an opportunity to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.91,0:05:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she did.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.20,0:05:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She ran and managed to escape ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.57,0:05:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.14,0:05:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She ran through the night,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.53,0:05:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually made her way\Nto an Armenian church.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.64,0:05:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the church couldn't help her,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.57,0:05:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she ended up running away\Nfrom them as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.47,0:06:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's still only 13 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.63,0:06:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She found an Armenian priest
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.99,0:06:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who took her in, gave her a refuge,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.91,0:06:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ultimately helped her\Nto get to Aleppo, Syria,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.90,0:06:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which at the time was becoming\Na makeshift resettlement community
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.15,0:06:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all of the Armenians
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.53,0:06:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were surviving\Nthe death marches through the desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.20,0:06:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna lived in an orphanage for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.37,0:06:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She worked with other survivors,\Nother girls her age,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.63,0:06:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working, and weaving rugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.81,0:06:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every Armenian she met, she'd ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.66,0:06:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you know my family?\NDo you know my mother?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.91,0:06:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you heard what happened to them?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.32,0:06:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one day, her question was answered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.97,0:06:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, I know your mother.\NI know your sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.26,0:06:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're alive. They survived.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.91,0:06:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're living in Marseilles, France."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.66,0:06:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the help of the AGBU,\Nthe Armenian General Benevolent Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.80,0:06:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an Armenian humanitarian organization,\Nstill very active today,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.40,0:07:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna was able to go to France,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.18,0:07:04.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was finally reunited with her mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.01,0:07:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this point, she was in her early 20s.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.86,0:07:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This reunion, however, was short-lived
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.23,0:07:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, unbeknown to Anna,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.80,0:07:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,halfway around the world in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.41,0:07:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her future husband\Nwas making his way to France.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.17,0:07:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, by 1925, my great-grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.15,0:07:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kevork Malikyan,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.79,0:07:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been living in America\Nfor over 20 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.29,0:07:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was married
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.72,0:07:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had two daughters of his own.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.12,0:07:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them was a newborn,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.86,0:07:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his wife was having a hard time\Nproducing milk for the newborn
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.04,0:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was given the advice\Nthat she should ice her chest.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.75,0:07:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This, however, caused her\Nto get pneumonia,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.65,0:07:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she died,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.10,0:07:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving Kevork alone\Nto care for his two girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.34,0:07:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he was able to get by for a while\Nwith the help of some relatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.28,0:07:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after some time,\Nthese relatives were saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.75,0:07:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is too much for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.15,0:07:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to remarry.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.53,0:08:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to find a wife\Nand someone to take care of your girls."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.66,0:08:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was told that there was\Na large Armenian community
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.20,0:08:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in Marseilles.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.15,0:08:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He should go there, find a wife,\Nbring one home.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.70,0:08:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he did.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.77,0:08:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1925, my great-grandfather\Nwent to Marseilles.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.49,0:08:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went to the rug factory\Nwhere Anna was working,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.62,0:08:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and admired her.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.18,0:08:24.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He then found her mother,\Ntold her of his intentions,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.76,0:08:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time Anna came home\Nfrom work that night,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.50,0:08:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the arrangements were all made.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.87,0:08:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kevork and Anna were married the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.23,0:08:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after their little\Nwedding ceremony,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.11,0:08:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they boarded a ship and came to America.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.33,0:08:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kevork and Anna went on\Nto have three more children.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.68,0:08:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their first, born in 1927,\Nis my grandmother.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.70,0:08:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing up, my grandmother knew
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.87,0:08:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that her mother was\Nan Armenian Genocide survivor.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.87,0:08:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the genocide\Nwas never spoken about,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.36,0:08:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except in very generalized terms,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.48,0:09:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, "The horrors we Armenians saw",
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.63,0:09:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, "The crimes the Turks,\Nthe Ottoman Turks, did to us".
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.69,0:09:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After Kevork's passing in 1962,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.83,0:09:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna started receiving letters\Nfrom relatives in Turkey.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.54,0:09:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my grandmother questioned her\Nabout these letters,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.18,0:09:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she would say that they were\Nfrom sisters of hers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.68,0:09:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these were sisters that Anna\Nhad never previously spoken about.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.92,0:09:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were sisters that, growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.65,0:09:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my grandmother never even knew existed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.39,0:09:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the beginning of the summer of 1964,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.05,0:09:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna announced\Nthat she was going to go visit them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.92,0:09:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This caused my grandmother great stress
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.03,0:09:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Anna had never traveled\Nanywhere alone in her adult life,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.41,0:09:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone to another country.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.70,0:09:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she hadn't been to Turkey\Nsince she was an 11-year-old child.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.94,0:09:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Anna was a stubborn woman,\Nand she persisted,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.90,0:09:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the beginning of\Nthe summer of 1964,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.50,0:10:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she went back to Turkey.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.99,0:10:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she returned\Nat the end of the summer of 1964,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.25,0:10:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she sat my grandmother down\Nand admitted to her
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.50,0:10:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the sister she had gone to visit,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.20,0:10:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the relative she had gone to visit,\Nthe women she was calling her "sisters",
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.83,0:10:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weren't actually her sisters.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.44,0:10:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were her two daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.03,0:10:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the two daughters she had abandoned\Nwhen she was 13 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.59,0:10:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the letters of correspondence
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.18,0:10:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had been sending\Nback and forth to Turkey,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.74,0:10:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she found out that her abductor had died.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.96,0:10:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for the first time in nearly 50 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.36,0:10:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she felt it was safe to go back\Nand to go find these girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.13,0:10:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, of course, themselves\Nwere women at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.70,0:10:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took Anna 50 years to speak the truth
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.46,0:10:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what she witnessed with the massacres
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.15,0:10:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with her experience\Nof being abducted and the rape.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.43,0:11:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And ...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.75,0:11:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I could have chosen to tell -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.08,0:11:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I chose to tell Anna's story,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.43,0:11:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could just as well have told\Nany of my great-grandparents' story,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.33,0:11:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of whom survived the genocide,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.36,0:11:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of whom experienced\Nequally incomprehensible hardships.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.78,0:11:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am here today because of\Nthe strength that they had,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.58,0:11:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I see that strength\Ncontinue to be embodied every day
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.94,0:11:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my parents and in my grandparents.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.26,0:11:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say that I'm an Armenian-American,\Na third-generation Armenian-American,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.90,0:11:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it might be more fitting to say
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.37,0:11:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I am a third-generation\NArmenian Genocide survivor,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.01,0:11:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I am the great-great-grandchild\Nof men and women
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.15,0:11:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who never even had an opportunity\Nto dream that I would exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.70,0:11:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I like to think\Nit's my duty and my obligation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.76,0:12:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell their story
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.03,0:12:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to keep the history of all of those\Nwho came before me alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.33,0:12:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.59,0:12:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)