MOORESTOWN, N.J. — Author Irene Vosbikian has published her novel, Bedros, detailing her father-in-law’s personal account of his life in Armenia, his escape from the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and eventual immigration to America.
“My own father was killed in WWII one month before I was born, and I’ve always been enamored with history and heroes.” It was while Irene was attending Temple University that she met her husband, Peter, a first generation Armenian American.
As a young bride, Irene Vosbikian spent hours listening to her father-in-law as he recounted stories of his homeland, his years as a young boy in Malatia — a province of the Ottoman Empire — his days in an orphanage, the Turkish Army and his dramatic escape to France and America.