Hakob Oshakan

Hakob Oshakan, whose civil name was Hakob Kufejian, was born in 1883 in Sölöz, near Bursa, lost his father at the age of five, spent little time at the Armash seminary and trained mostly on his own. A schoolteacher at nineteen, he narrowly escaped the arrests in Constantinople from 1915 to 1918, then crossed into Bulgaria disguised as a German officer. After 1924, he taught in Egypt, Cyprus and Jerusalem, and died in 1948 in Aleppo, where he had gone to see the sites of the deportations.

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