NER tallies orphanages, hospitals, and relief work. New Near East, Jan 1920.
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Location

Harpoot (Kharpert)

Year

1920

Item Detail

By January 1920 Near East Relief ran orphanages, hospitals, workshops, farms, and feeding stations across Anatolia and the Caucasus. What had started as emergency food and medical aid now worked as a regional system. This issue carries an inventory that counts 77 orphanages and about 21,000 children. Other articles describe the Harpoot compound, soup-line casework at Samsoun, and vocational training at Mardin and Kars. Survivor accounts and personnel reports name the people behind the figures.

Context

The New Near East was Near East Relief's monthly publication that reported on the organization’s work and mobilized financial support from American readers. Its articles preserve evidence of field conditions and institutional decisions, but they frame that evidence through Near East Relief’s own appeals for support.

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  • Holding Institution

    Rockefeller Archive Center

  • External Link
    https://dimes.rockarch.org/objects/VAgMk4eTbaSAUW5fcqkaeM/view

  • Attribution

    Near East Foundation Collection, Rockefeller Archive Center

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  • Notes

    Masthead: Vol. IV, No. 7 (Total No. 31), January 1920. Published by Near East Relief, New York.

  • Document Contents

    * “A Day in Harpoot” tours the Harpoot compound and its central office, dispensary, hospital, milk station, orphanages, workshops, and distribution center.

    * “The New Map of Asia” examines proposed territorial changes and current political conditions after the First World War.

    * “Col. Haskell Cables for Aid” reports shortages of food and fuel and mass displacement in the Caucasus.

    * “Inventory January, 1920, Near East Relief” summarizes the organization’s personnel, facilities, and relief work.

    * “American Business Institution Follows Trail of Relief Workers” describes a retail headquarters in Constantinople and branches in the interior.

    * “How It Is Done,” by Stephen C. Peabody, explains investigations and ration decisions at the Samsoun soup lines.

    * “Typical Monthly Report of One of Our Relief Stations” summarizes orphanage, hospital, and relief work at Konia.

    * “Still It Grows,” “Marsovan,” and “Church Council Endorses Work” report expansion to 77 orphanages with about 21,000 children and record support for relief work.

    * “Turkey 2000 A.D.” surveys Bitlis before and after the Armenian Genocide and imagines its future under a different government.

    * “This to Be Said for the Turk” presents an eyewitness account of famine and refugee conditions in the Caucasus.

    * “The Young Apprentices” reports that 150 orphan boys at Mardin learned trades in local shops and another 50 trained in the orphanage workshops.

    * “A Gateway to Turkey” prints Louise Bond’s report on orphanage, school, and feeding work at Kars.

    * “Turkish Beys and Their Ways” and “Jottings from the Acorné” recount field observations by Rachael North and other relief workers.

    * “Starved Armenian Romance Fed Again in America” and “The Fourteenth Contingent” profile Armenian survivors and newly assigned relief workers.

    * “Sold for Two Sheep” records the testimony of an Armenian survivor who was sold, forced to labor, and later admitted to a Near East Relief orphanage at Harpoot.

    * “It’s Wordy, But Expressive” prints Shnook Kaldjian’s letter of thanks to a relief worker.

NER tallies orphanages, hospitals, and relief work. New Near East, Jan 1920.