Today Sunday, October 5 in Montreal, as part of the centenary commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the Cinéma du Parc this documentary Bared Maronian “Orphans of the Genocide,” a document that traces the lives of many orphans of the Armenian Genocide through images never before seen. Research has led Maurice Missak Kelechian discover several orphanages created especially to house the survivors of the Armenian genocide was perpetrated children in 1915, which is now recognized and whose records and documentation are in different libraries around the world almost worldwide.
The first documentary tells the story of an Armenian orphanage located today Antoura College, near Beirut, Lebanon, where a thousand orphans lived and forcibly converted and “turkified” during World War II. It also reveals many other orphanages where Armenian orphans were housed. The film is about an orphan who was adopted and later became one of the national icons of Turkey as a daughter of Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey.
The documentary also explores the Herculean that “American Near East Relief Foundation” Foundation has made saving task, feeding and housing more than 150,000 documented orphans of the Armenian genocide between 1919 and 1926 by the establishment of more than 200 permanent and temporary orphanages in historic Armenia, Turkey and the Middle East.
A section of the documentary is devoted specifically to boys and girls in Canada Georgetown. In 1923, the “Armenian Relief Association of Canada ‘Association led a group of orphans of the Armenian genocide in Ontario, Canada, where they lived. We also find in “Orphans of the Genocide” interviews with different personalities such as British journalist Robert Fisk.