Ethnography

Letter to Mr. K. L. Berekian 1922

The Berekian family archive includes letters, postcards, personal journals, photographs, and books, which belonged to Kacher Berekian and Nevarte Berekian Nahabedian, survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Kacher Berekian was born in Hajin and Nevarte Berekian Nahabedian in Constantinople. They immigrated to the US at a young age where they met and married. Nevarte Berekian Nahabedian maintained a strong bond with surviving relatives who eventually settled in France and  her friends from Collège Mékhitariste in Trabzon.   Their grandchildren, Gale, Annie, Nancy, and Beverly, donated their family’s manuscripts for preservation of their family’s legacy. We hope that through the study of these manuscripts we to glimpse the details of Nevarte and Kacher’s survival and perseverance and learn from their experience. These documents are available for scholarly research and the Armenian Archives at UCLA will be happy to facilitate access to the documents.