Sakayan was born in 1931 in Salonica , Greece , to Armenian parents who had escaped the Armenian Genocide . She grew up in a multilingual environment , with her first languages being Western Armenian and Modern Greek , and she received early exposure to German , French and Turkish . After immigrating to Soviet Armenia , she received her education in Eastern Armenian and Russian . Later on , she mastered English and learned other languages
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Dora Sakayan