The paternal grandparents of Emil Kazaz - Tadevos Ghazazian from Kars and Hadji Elpis from Erzurum (Eastern Anatolia, Western Armenia). Tadevos owned horses and a phaeton service in Kars. When the Ottoman soldiers began the forced deportation, Tadevos managed to secretly hand his two sons over to his trusted servant before joining the death march. The servant abandons the young boys and escapes to save his own family. At 12 years old, the eldest son Aramayis (Emil’s grandfather, b1906) leads an escape on a horse with his 6-year-old brother and two younger cousins. Thinking her sons were murdered, Hadji Elpis passes from heartache and grief upon reaching an Armenian church in Krasnodar. In 1922, Tadevos reunites with his sons in Tiflis. As a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, in 1937, Tadevos heads out to buy bread and never returns home. It was only years later they discovered Tadevos was exiled to Siberia as a Western Armenian. En route, he passed away in the train. His body was wrapped and tossed out of the moving train. Turkey failed. Today Emil Kazaz Jr, as the great grandson of Tadevos is proud and strong descendent of Armenian Genocide survivor. #ArmenianGenocide #neveragain #1915 #TurkeyFailed #Armenia #Armenian #Genocide #ԷմիլԳազազ #ԷմիլԳազազԿրտսեր #армения #геноцидармян #геноцид #armenianpride #westernarmenia #kars #erzurum #armenians #Gyumri #tbilisi #genocidesurvivor #EmilKazaz #EmilKazazJunior #emilkazazmuseum #emilandmonet #ancestors #roots #Yerevan #հայաստան #ցեղասպանություն #1915neveragain (at Emil Kazaz Fine Art Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Y_dFOnXwl/?igshid=19kh82u8ztw35