Puzant Godjamanian (1909-1993)

Puzant was born in Trabzon, Turkey, on December 31st, 1909. Trabzon is a town on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. It is the capital of Trabzon Province. At the time Ottoman Turkey entered the 1st World War in 1914 it was inhabited by 45,000 people, of which around one third were Armenians (around 15,000). The rest were Greeks and Turks, and most of the population was occupied in agriculture, crafts and commerce. When the great tragedy of the Armenian people started in the spring of 1915, Puzant was five and a half years old. He survived thanks to

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