After the end of World War I in 1918 , Amirian returned to Sucrati , an Armenian neighborhood in Istanbul , where he served as a Director of an Armenian Orphanage that was housed in a Turkish Palace . In the early 1920s , Amirian and General Dro both fled to Romania . Dro was placed in charge of the Ghoukasian Oil Refineries and Amirian was appointed as a Management Officer . The Ghouaskasian Oil Refineries , also known as the Lumina Oil Refineries , had ranged all over Ploiești . In 1923 , General Dro had introduced Amirian to a young Armenian-Bulgarian girl by the name of Siranoush Garabedian . Later that year , Amirian and Siranoush would be married . A year later , Amirian 's first child was born , Christine . Two sons followed , Sebouh in 1925 and Dro in 1928 . He had also lived with his older sibling , Haiganoush and his niece Alene . Haiganoush was George Mardikian 's mother and Alene was his youngest sister . George Mardikian was a famous Armenian Philanthropist . In 1951 , President Harry Truman had awarded George Mardikian the Medal of Freedom for supplying food to Coalition forces and civilians during World War II and the Korean War . He also was responsible for the migration of over 5,000 Armenian 's from German refugee camps to the United States after World War II . In 1938 , he had opened his own restaurant called Omar Khayyam . In 1935 , Haiganoush and her daughter Alene fled to the United States . A year later , Haiganoush would die from pneumonia
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Krikor Amirian