ABSTRACT
This chapter explores intergenerational life stories of Armenian women who, as a direct consequence of the 1915 genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish Empire against its Armenian subjects, were absorbed into Turkish, Kurdish and Arab Bedouin households and led hidden double lives in many cases throughout their lifetimes. Anush and Azniv were both lost and refound in the aftermath of genocide. Desert area in north-eastern Syria, which was part of the Ottoman Empire during the time of the Armenian genocide. The 1918 Armistice and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire signaled the beginning of the massive humanitarian relief efforts in many different cities of the Near East where Armenian genocide survivors had ended up. Aleppo, which had some of the major deportee concentrations, housed several such shelters. For the purposes of this essay, the author concentrates only on the archival records of the shelter administered by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU).
