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A video introduction to the Displaced Persons Documentation Project.

For Researchers & Scholars

USC Digital Library

Completed oral history interviews and digitized materials are available on the USC Digital Libraries. 

“When they told us we had arrived, we ran out to the upper deck and we looked up and there was the Statue of Liberty…Everybody cried…I was so happy.”

Jean Kelegian
Jean Kelegian seated in her home during her oral history interview
Ernest Badalian Excerpt from Ernest Badalian’s oral history interview.
Lucy Zennedjian Excerpt from Lucy Zennedjian’s oral history interview.
Mary Hagopian Excerpt from Mary Hagopian’s oral history interview.

Ernest Badalian

Excerpt from Ernest Badalian’s oral history interview.

Lucy Zennedjian

Excerpt from Lucy Zennedjian’s oral history interview.

Mary Hagopian

Excerpt from Mary Hagopian’s oral history interview.

Oral History Projects

California History Through Armenian Experiences