01.06.2024


I was young, but remember it very well. I stuffed my toy dolls in a tin box. Mama put some food on top of them and put the box on a cart. We were going to get in the cart, to sit down down and move, when it turned over...
Marie Yerkat, born in Adabazar in 1910

It was only then that I noticed that Shaké had her little doll with her, held to her chest. My eyes filled with tears and I asked my grandma that we return and take my doll too. But she bent down and kissed my cheeks saying that, when we arrived in the first city we came to, she would buy me a big doll. She began to describe the big and beautiful dolls to be found there to me.
Aghavni Poghosyan, born in in Adabazar in 1907

They would buy beautiful dolls for me, brought from abroad. They would spare no expense and bought one for half a gold piece. It was from Europe, in a beautiful box, and I remember it to this day. She would close her eyes when I put to bed, then she would open them. Mama wouldn't always hand it to me but, during the war, she ignore that…
Veronika Berberyan, born in the town of Bogazlyan in 1907

Elizabeth was talking to the doll. I could see she was trying to explain to the doll what we were doing in this wagon and why we were traveling.
Veron Kherdyan, born in the town of Aziziye in 1908

The photograph, taken by Norwegian missionary Bodil Biørn before the Armenian Genocide, shows little Armenian girls with their dolls.