Zoryan Institute

Published purpose

The Zoryan Institute will transcribe and translate 43 audiovisual oral history interview recordings from its Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection into English. Conducted from 1983 to 1990, these interviews offer firsthand insights into the migration and resettlement experiences of Canada’s Armenian Genocide survivors. Their stories reflect diverse experiences of migration to, and resettlement in, Canada, and are influenced by when the survivors migrated, the factors that drove their migration, and the country from which they migrated. Included in these recordings are 4 testimonies from “Georgetown Boys,” who were part of a group of 100 Armenian orphans who settled in an orphanage–farming school in Georgetown, Ontario, in 1923-1924.