Margaret ahnert biography

Margaret Ajemian Ahnert had never heard of the Armenians when she was first pushed around by bullies on the schoolyard who shouted that they hated her.

Why did they hate her?

Margaret Ajemian Ahnert was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.

Margaret Ajemian Ahnert was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.

Writer, television producer, docent, and educator.

About the Author.

Margaret Ahnert was born in New York City in Growing up, she loved to hear her mother's stories about her own childhood during the Armenian genocide in Turkey.

Margaret Ajemian Ahnert was born in New York City.

Because their parents cited the "starving Armenians" as a reason to make their children eat vegetables.

As it turns out, Ahnert's mother, Ester, was one of those "starving Armenians." In 1915, when she was 15, Ester was separated from her family as they were forced from their home in Amasi, Turkey, along with hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians.

More than a million Armenians perished.

Ahnert recounts her mother's story in "The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide" (Beaufort Books, $24.95), a book that has had surprising repercussions in Ahnert's life.

A reading last May at a Barnes & Noble store in New York City was disrupted by five Turkish men who started passing out literature denying the Armenian genocide. One man was arr