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    PRESS RELEASE
    Contact: Karekin Dickran
    Hans Broges Gade 45,
    8000 Aarhus C. DK
    Denmark
    Telephone: 45 + 86 13 90 54
    e-mail: [email protected]


    MARIA JACOBSEN - SYMPOSIUM
    Friday 24th April 2009 from 16.30 - 19.00
    at: Pensionhighschool
    Fredericiagade 84, 1.
    Copenhagen

    A symposium will be held in memory of Maria Jacobsen to commemorate the
    94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide


    The Committee will mark the memory of two Danish missionaries:

    Miss Maria Jacobsen [1882-1960] and Miss Karen Jeppe [1876-1935]


    Maria Jacobsens wrote a diary during the time she worked as a nurse in the
    American hospital in Harpoot [Kharpert] covering the period between
    1907-1919. She later moved to the new Annie Tracy Riggs Hospital which
    opened in Mezreh, located at Villayet Mamurat-Ul-Aziz in former Ottoman
    Empires, Turkey.

    Over decades K.M.A [Woman's Missionary Workers] has raised thousands of
    kroner´s and sent dozens of missionaries for Armenian relief. Maria
    Jacobsen, who stayed at her post during the Armenian Genocide, recorded her
    own eyewitness account on local conditions while the Ottoman government
    carried out its programme of annihilating the Armenians under the cover of
    World War I.

    Until recently the original diary was available only in facsimile form
    attached to the Armenian version, translated, edited and introduced in 1979
    by Nerses Pakhdikian and Mihran Simonian

    The committee has made a fair copy of the diary. The manuscript is almost
    finished; it has been edited from old Danish to modern Danish and ready to
    be published in a digitized format. The Committee, therefore, is holding a
    symposium to introduce a Limited Edition of the diary to the general public.
    The book which contains an introduction, some articles of lightning
    accessories and annotation, is to be published in September 2009.

    You are all welcomed

    Kindest greetings

    Britta June Claridge Johnsen
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