Vahe Danielyan

In 2015, Danielyan was interviewed, at the age of 94, about his adherence to a raw food diet, which he attributes to his longevity. His diet is composed of mainly raw fruit and vegetables, and he refrains from eating meat.

When Stalin died in 1953, Danielyan was released from the camps and head back to Yerevan, Armenia. He married Nyna Khoetsyan in 1959. They have one daughter, Gohar.

In 1947 he was charged by the Soviet government for being a traitor and was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a Soviet prison camp:

In the summer of 1945, after the defeat of the Germans, Danieyan returned home to Armenia and worked as an electrical technician.

Vahe Danielyan (Armenian: Վահէ Տանիելյան; born 14 January 1920) first served in the Fifth Army infantry in Ukraine during World War II and was captured no less than five times. After surviving in German and Italian Prisoner of War camps. In 1947 Danielyan was charged by the Soviet government for being a traitor and was imprisoned and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a Soviet concentration camp. He was awarded the Prisoner of War medal (6 times) and a Victory Medal from the Soviet Union.

Vahe Danielyan was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 14 January 1920. His father, Daniel Danielyan, who was born in Constantinople was a graduate of the French Medical Academy, was a doctor and a therapist. His mother, Eliza Ohanyan, was a housewife who was born in Konya. The family would move to Soviet Armenia in 1924 because his father wanted to "serve his people" and not the Turks. Danielyan attended the local Armenian school for three years. At the age of 20 in 1940, Danielyan was recruited and set to Novocherkassk for Officer's School. He graduated with high honors.