Film
Grandma's Tattoo
2011 · 46m · Documentary
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Overview
A family story that reveals the fate of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War. The story of "Grandma's Tattoos" is a personal film about what happened to many Armenian women during the genocide In 1919, just at the end of World War I, the Allied forces reclaimed 90,819 Armenian young girls and children who, during the war years, were forced to become prostitutes to survive, or had given birth to children after forced or arranged marriages or rape. Many of these women were tattooed as a sign that they belonged to abductor. European and American missionaries organized help and saved thousands of refugees who were later scattered all over the world to places like Beirut, Marseille, and Fresno.Director Suzanne Khardalian
Cast
Crew
- Suzanne KhardalianDirector
Details
- Release date
- February 17, 2011
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 46m
- Genres
- Documentary
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