Survivor's Costume

Do you remember when you were five years old? Many of us were starting kindergarten, learning our ABCs, and enjoying weekend cartoons. But for the young boy who wore the costume in this week’s video, childhood was a very different experience. Click to watch as Collections Curator Gary Lind-Sinanian discusses one of the few boys’ costumes in our collection, which belonged to a survivor of the Armenian Genocide from the town of Shatakh.