Voskhana Mirkhanyan, a 106-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide, died on 14 April. The news was announced by the mayor of Lenughi village, Gegham Ghazaryan.
NEWS.am had covered Voskhana Mirkhanyan’s story within the framework of the “Survivors” project dedicated to the Armenian Genocide carried out in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923.
Voskhana Mirkhanyan was born in 1915 in Constantinople. She was raised by her grandmother and grandfather. The family managed to survive because armed Turks, entering their home, thought they had entered a Kurdish home and left. Afterwards, the family settled in Aleppo.
In 1965, Voskhana Mirkhanyan, together with her husband Garabed, moved to Armenia. Voskhana Mirkhanyan had two sons and three daughters.
