Dolores Zohrab was born in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire , a daughter of famed writer and a parliament member Krikor Zohrab and his wife Clara . At the age of 19 , Dolores Zohrab Liebmann witnessed the arrest and deportation of her father from her family 's residence in Constantinople as part of the Armenian Genocide . This event would deeply impact her life , for her father would be eventually killed . Dolores , her mother and sister Herminé subsequently fled to Europe via Austria and Romania and arriving in Paris , France in order to reunite with her two brothers Aram and Leon . After the death of her mother , Zohrab moved to Romania , where in 1932 she married an American businessman , Henry L. Liebmann , grandson of Samuel Liebmann of the Jewish American Liebmann family famously associated with the Brooklyn-based Rheingold Beer company . They moved to the United States , and in 1934 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann became a naturalized American citizen
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann