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Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) and his family were victims of the 20th century's first major genocide, the systematic slaughter of Armenians by the Turks that began in 1915. During the siege of his hometown, the ancient Armenian city of Van, 11-year-old Gorky helped with the city's defense by bringing water and food to the men fighting in the barricades.^1(p62) Those who were not slaughtered were sent on a death march, which he, his mother, his sister Vartoosh, and 2 half-sisters survived after walking 150 miles to Yerevan in Russian Armenia. His half-sisters went to the United States in 1916, but he stayed behind with his mother and Vartoosh. In 1919, after the Civil War in Russia, his mother died in his arms of starvation and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1920, Gorky and Vartoosh sailed to America on the SS Presidente Wilson to join his father and half-sisters. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

James C. Harris, MD