Antranig Dzarugian ( transliterated in Eastern Armenian as '' ' Andranik Tsarukian ' '' ) was born in Gürün , Sivas Vilayet , Ottoman Empire in 1913 . He was related to Chello Toros ( 1871 – 1893 ) , one of the fighters of the Armenian irregular units against the Ottoman Empire . During the years of the Armenian Genocide , Dzarugian separated from his mother as a result of the death marches in the Syrian desert and spent his childhood in the Armenian Orphanage of Aleppo . In 1921 , he met his mother in Aleppo and moved to the local Haygazian Armenian School to receive his elementary education . In the same year , his father was arrested and killed in the Marash prison for his participation in the patriotic movement against the Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Antranig Dzarugian