Adrienne Alexanian will discuss her father’s memoir in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the University Business Center’s Alice Peters Auditorium (Room 191) at Fresno State.

After her father died in 1983 and she began going through his things, Adrienne discovered things about him that she had never known. Among Yervant Alexanian’s belongings, his daughter found a hand-written account of his experiences during the Armenian genocide, in which he lost 51 members of his immediate family.

Alexanian spent years transforming his account into a book, “Forced into Genocide: Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Empire,” published earlier this year. This edition, translated from Alexanian’s hand-written Armenian language chronicle, includes never-before-seen documents and photos that the author preserved.

“Forced into Genocide” is the riveting memoir of Yervant Edward Alexanian, an eye-witness to the massacres and dislocation of his family and countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during World War I. His memoir is a one-of-a-kind insider’s account documenting the genocide’s astonishing cruelty — but also its rare, unexpected acts of humanity.

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