Director Suzanne Khardalian will discuss her movie Grandma’s Tattoos after the movie will be shown in Glendale’s public library on December 2. The entrance is free but the number of sits is limited, Asbarez informs.

Suzanne Khardalian is an independent film director and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and in Paris and worked as a reporter in Paris until 1985 after which she started working on movies.  She has directed more than 20 movies which have been shown in Europe and the USA.

“My grandma was abducted and kept in slavery for many years in Turkey. She was also forcibly tattooed as a property, same that they used to mark cattle. The discovery of the story has shaken me. Grandma Khanoum’s fate was not an aberration. On the contrary, tens of thousands of Armenian children and teenagers were raped and abducted, and kept in slavery,” Suzanne Khardalian said.

Grandma’s Tattoos is a movie that reveals the veil of thousands of forgotten Armenian women, who survived the Genocide but were forced into prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.