www.Hadjin.com A Town No More
Harold
Mark Keshishian 1929-2010
This web site has been established to keep the many Hadjintsi
descendents especially in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and even now
to the seventh generations informed of the history and heritage of
Hadjin, a town that exists no more. It existed on the same site that the
town of Siambeyli exists today albeit in a very different context. I am
sure that to many if not all the the readers of the
www.Hadjin.com
story will be perceived in a political context. However it is not a
political statement but rather a representation of all the information
and photographs that I and my late
brother James have been able to accumulate.
My father Mark "Margos" Keshishian was born in Hadjin in 1894. He
received his early education in Hadjin, Tarsus, Gaziantep. In Taurus
College (high school ) in 1909 he received the medal for best Turkish
language student and a gold pound as a prize. There after he attended
Bardizag School and then entered the Syrian Protestant College /American
University of Beirut. In 1915b he along with all other Empire male
citizens was conscripted off the campus of AUB going on to serve in the
4th Ottoman Army/Southern Front Syria Palestine. His brother Garabed was
already serving in the 4th army as well serving as a chavush (sargent)
for a colonel in charge of all supplies going by rail to the southern
front. Regrettably at the same time that they were serving, their
father, brothers, sisters and extended family were marched into the
desert in the forced deportations where they perished. The families of
Hadjin were deported to Der Zor (also spelled Dayr az-Zawr, Deir ez Zor,
and Deir al-Zur) in the desert that is now part of Syria.
|
