MOVIE · 2011
Grandma's Tattoo
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
NOW PLAYING
Grandma's Tattoo
ABOUT
Story
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
Featured cast
MORE TO EXPLORE
Similar titles
That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town2010
Cincinnati's Rock 'N Roll Legends1995
Japans tätowierte Helden2024
How the Monuments Came Down2021
Tattoos: A Scarred History2009
Moleman 4: Longplay2017
The Reindeer People2014
The 50 Year Argument2014
Leninland2013
Revolution OS2001CINEGOThe Women at Själö2008
For All Mankind1989