Varaztad Kazanjian was born in Erzincan , Ottoman Empire on March 18 , 1879 . In 1879 , he attended a French Jesuit school in the city of Sivas . Thereafter , he moved to Samsun to live with his older half-brother . While in Samsun , he worked with his brother but eventually worked in a post office . In an attempt to escape the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire , he left to the United States in October 1895 and settled in Worcester , Massachusetts , and took a job in the local wire factory . It was at the mill that Dr. Kazanjian first displayed the natural dexterity that would serve him well in the field of plastic surgery
massacres of Armenians
Hamidian massacres
Varaztad Kazanjian