Rupen Sevak received his elementary education in his birthplace at the Askanazian school . He then moved to Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) and studied at the prestigious Berberian School . He graduated in 1905 and went to Lausanne , Switzerland , to pursue studies at the medical school . He met there his future wife , Helene Apell . After graduating in 1911 , he decided to go back to Constantinople in 1914 with his family . This decision would cost him his life . He was arrested on at the onset of the Armenian Genocide on April 24 , 1915 and killed on August 26 , 1915
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ruben Sevak