Screening of Grandma’s Tattoos on December 2, 2011 at 7pm

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Glendale Public Library
222 East Harvard Street
Glendale CA 91205
Tel: 818-548-2030
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Glendale Public Library to Screen Grandma’s Tattoos

GLENDALE, CA Director Suzanne Khardalian will discuss her film,
Grandma’s Tattoos, following a screening of the film on Friday December
2, 2011, 7PM at the Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 222 East Harvard
Street. Admission is free and the seating is limited. Library visitors
receive 3 hours FREE parking across the street at The Market Place
parking structure with validation at the loan desk.

Suzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied
journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until
1985 when she started to work on films. She also holds a Master’s Degree
in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tuft’s
University and contributes articles to different journals. She has
directed more than twenty films that have been shown both in Europe and
the US.

“Grandma was abducted and kept in slavery for many years somewhere in
Turkey. She was also forcibly marked, -tattooed – as a property, the
same way you mark cattle. The discovery of the story has shaken me. I
share the shame, the guilt and anger that infected my grandma’s life.
Grandma Khanoum’s fate was not an aberration. On the contrary tens of
thousands of Armenian children and teenagers were raped and abducted,
kept in slavery,” explained Suzanne Khardalian.

“Grandma’s Tattoos” is a film that lifts the veil of thousands of
forgotten women-survivors of the Genocide-who were forced into
prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.

The program is organized by the Glendale and Burbank chapters of the
Armenian National Committee-Western Region and Asbarez Daily newspaper
and is sponsored by The Glendale Public library.

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Contact: Elizabeth Grigorian at [email protected] or call
(818) 548-3288

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress