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The Armenian Orphans Gathered from Deserts
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2015POSTED IN: ARMENIA, NEWS
By Zaven Yeghyaian
genocide-museum.am
In 1915-1923 as a result of the Armenian Genocide thousands of the
Armenian children were left orphans and converted to Islam. Many of
them had died of hunger and various epidemics raging at that time.
In autumn 1918, after the end of the World War I, the Armenian
associations, the Armenian Church, different individuals, especially
soldiers of the Armenian Legion and the Armenian Volunteer Regiments,
foreign relief organizations (the American Committee for Relief in the
Near East, the Lord Mayor's Fund of London, the Danish Women's Union,
the Russian "Red Cross", the Union of Russian Cities, etc.), as well
as international organizations (the "Red Cross", the League of
Nations) carried out active operations to save the Armenian orphans
from inevitable loss.
The Armenian orphans were gathered from different parts of the Ottoman
Empire, Syrian deserts, freed from the Muslim families and Turkish
state orphanages.
As a result of the orphan gathering operations in 1918-21, more than
77.000 Armenian children were gathered and sheltered in the orphanages
of the Armenian and foreign relief organizations of Turkey, Caucasus
and the Near East as well as state orphanages in the territory of the
Republic of Armenia.
"Thousands of the Armenian children were scattered in the villages in
the Turkish houses, mostly as servants, very few as adoptees, or adult
girls as wives. Just after the armistice, not only as a Patriarch, but
as an Armenian individual it was one of my first duties to collect the
Armenian orphans and bring them back to the nation".
http://www.armenianlife.com/2015/02/18/the-armenian-orphans-gathered-from-deserts/
From: A. Papazian
BY STAFF
- POSTED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2015POSTED IN: ARMENIA, NEWS
By Zaven Yeghyaian
genocide-museum.am
In 1915-1923 as a result of the Armenian Genocide thousands of the
Armenian children were left orphans and converted to Islam. Many of
them had died of hunger and various epidemics raging at that time.
In autumn 1918, after the end of the World War I, the Armenian
associations, the Armenian Church, different individuals, especially
soldiers of the Armenian Legion and the Armenian Volunteer Regiments,
foreign relief organizations (the American Committee for Relief in the
Near East, the Lord Mayor's Fund of London, the Danish Women's Union,
the Russian "Red Cross", the Union of Russian Cities, etc.), as well
as international organizations (the "Red Cross", the League of
Nations) carried out active operations to save the Armenian orphans
from inevitable loss.
The Armenian orphans were gathered from different parts of the Ottoman
Empire, Syrian deserts, freed from the Muslim families and Turkish
state orphanages.
As a result of the orphan gathering operations in 1918-21, more than
77.000 Armenian children were gathered and sheltered in the orphanages
of the Armenian and foreign relief organizations of Turkey, Caucasus
and the Near East as well as state orphanages in the territory of the
Republic of Armenia.
"Thousands of the Armenian children were scattered in the villages in
the Turkish houses, mostly as servants, very few as adoptees, or adult
girls as wives. Just after the armistice, not only as a Patriarch, but
as an Armenian individual it was one of my first duties to collect the
Armenian orphans and bring them back to the nation".
http://www.armenianlife.com/2015/02/18/the-armenian-orphans-gathered-from-deserts/
From: A. Papazian