In 1921 his family , a survivor of the Armenian Genocide found refuge in Aleppo , Syria . From 1930 to 1935 Simonian studied at the Antelias seminary . Returning to Aleppo , he taught Armenian language and history at the city 's Haigazian and Gulbenkian schools until 1946 . In that period he prepared his first textbooks for Armenian history and was a founder Aleppo 's teachers ' union . From 1936 he was the president of the Sasun Compatriotic Union
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Simon Simonian