Elizabeth Mazadoorian's Herstory
Elizabeth (full birth name: Yeghsapet Aharonian) was born in the small village of Yegheki, in Harput of the Ottoman empire. Her family in particular was known for baking and producing bread for the village, as that was their main responsibility in everyday life Pre-Genocide. The people of her home village were also known as being very outgoing and friendly in nature. When the Armenian Genocide took over daily life, Elizabeth found herself in a death march with her mother. Her mother tried giving her away in an effort to save Elizabeth, as she knew the fate of those who reached the end of the march. Although at the time, Elizabeth was only three years old and so she wanted to stay with her mother. Somehow Elizabeth ended up getting separated from her mother and had to fend for herself. During this separation, she ended up getting taken in by a Christian Arab family, whom she lived with for six years.
One day while Elizabeth was outside of the house, she saw a familiar face of a family member. As soon as they saw each other, this family member kidnapped Elizabeth and brought her to the sister of her father who had survived and was living nearby. However, Elizabeth didn’t like having to stay with her father’s sister. She was then given another option for her living situation, that of going to live at an orphanage. Her next step after choosing the orphanage was traveling to her new home, which was located in the village of Yegheki. Elizabeth liked living in that orphanage, but unfortunately it collapsed and so she had to move on to another orphanage. Elizabeth ended up living in about five orphanages in total, heading to one in Constantinople, then traveling by boat to another orphanage in Corinth, Greece.
In Greece, there was a Near East Relief orphanage which she ended up loving. The living conditions there were good and they provided her with a good education for several years. Elizabeth felt that all of the positive memories and time she spent at this orphanage helped shaped her character, and led to the creation of the person she ended up becoming. Ultimately it was here where her father found her, although he was at the time located in the United States. Until the journey to the United States, Elizabeth traveled from Greece to another orphanage in Beirut. She met up with family members in this orphanage and stayed with them until she could get to the United States.
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Elizabeth eventually made it to New England, where there were available jobs, and then after some time landed in Connecticut. There she was then married to her husband and continued down her post-Genocide path of life.
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