Simon Samsonian (1912-2003)

Simon Samsonian was born in Samson, a small seashore town and seaport in North Turkey, in the province of Trabzon. In 1915 it had a population of around    15 000, from which around one third were Armenians. The rest were Greeks and Turks. We don’t know the precise birth date of Simon, because later on he only remembered vaguely that at the beginning of the great genocide of the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, in mid-1915, he was a 2-3 years old small child. So, we can only surmise that he was born during 1912-13.           

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