The Library and the Survivor: Aram Andonian in Paris
Ararat-Eskijian Museum and Researchj Center
Sheen Chapel
15105 Mission Hills Road,
Mission Hills CA 91345
The history of the Nubar Library, founded in Paris in 1927, is inextricably linked to that of its first librarian, Aram Andonian. A former Armenian journalist and writer from Constantinople and a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Andonian became the linchpin of this new institution which, in the inter-war period, worked to ensure the cultural survival of a people in exile. He and the Library were one until his death in 1951. This lecture will focus in particular on the little-known episode of the looting of the Nubar Library by the Nazis in 1941, through a reading of a unique source, Aram Andonian’s unpublished diary.
Boris Adjemian is the Director of the AGBU Nubar Library, Paris. He holds a PhD in history from EHESS and Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.” He is the co-editor of the academic journal Études arméniennes contemporaines and an affiliated researcher to the Centre de recherches historiques (CNRS, EHESS). His most recent book is La Bibliothèque et le survivant: un intellectuel arménien au siècle des génocides (Paris, Anamosa, 2025).
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