SURVIVOR: ARAM ANDONIAN IN PARIS
A Lecture by
Dr. Boris Adjemian
Director, AGBU Nubar Library, Paris
Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. (PT) / 7:30 p.m. (ET)
ARARAT-ESKIJIAN MUSEUM-SHEEN CHAPEL
15105 MISSION HILLS ROAD, MISSION HILLS, CA
THE PROGRAM WILL ALSO BE LIVESTREAMED ON
THE ARARAT-ESKIJIAN YOUTUBE CHANNEL
https://www.youtube.com/@AraratEskijianMuseum
The history of the Nubar Library, founded in Paris in 1927, is
inextricably linked to that of its first librarian, Aram An-
donian. A former Armenian journalist and writer from Con-
stantinople and a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, An-
donian became the linchpin of this new institution which, in
the inter-war period, worked to ensure the cultural survival
of a people in exile. He and the Library were one until his
death in 1951. This lecture will focus in particular on the lit-
tle-known episode of the looting of the Nubar Library by the
Nazis in 1941, through a reading of a unique source, Aram
Andonian’s unpublished diary.
Boris Adjemian is the Director of the AGBU Nubar Library,
Paris. He holds a PhD in history from EHESS and Università
degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.” He is the co-editor of the
academic journal Études arméniennes contemporaines and
an affiliated researcher to the Centre de recherches his-
toriques (CNRS, EHESS). His most recent book is La Biblio-
thèque et le survivant: un intellectuel arménien au siècle
des génocides (Paris, Anamosa, 2025).
Co-sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Society for Armenian Studies,
and the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute.
