Soghomon Tehlirian with his wife and son

Soghomon Tehlirian with his wife Anahit and his son Zaven. The picture shows three people in a room: a young man in a suit, a smiling woman and an older man with glasses in a white shirt and an apron.

His son, 90-year-old Zaven Tehlirian, lives in the USA. Through a servant of the Armenian church in Oakland he handed over unique documents from the family archive to the Museum of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin: photographs of Soghomon Tehlirian, his parents’ passports, the burial certificate from the Ararat Armenian cemetery in Fresno and a family tree that ends with the year of the Armenian Genocide, 1915. Zaven Tehlirian speaks Armenian perfectly and follows events in the homeland.