Several major figures in the Armenian national liberation movement of the early 20th century lived and/or died in the US . Among them were Andranik Ozanian , a military commander who is considered a national hero among Armenians , who lived in Fresno , California from 1922 and died in California in 1927 . Another notable military commander , Garegin Nzhdeh , lived in Boston , Massachusetts from 1933 to 1937 , where he founded the Armenian Youth Federation . Drastamat Kanayan ( Dro ) , the Defense Minister of Armenia from 1918 to 1919 , lived in America after World War II and was shortly arrested for collaborating with the Nazis . His funeral ceremony was held in Trinity Church in the City of Boston in 1956 . Shahan Natalie , a Dashnak activist , organized the Operation Nemesis in the early 1920s , during which numerous Armenian Genocide perpetrators were murdered . From 1910 to 1912 he studied at the Boston University and died in Watertown , Massachusetts in 1983
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Armenian Americans