Collections
Jebail is planned for 1,000 orphans. NER Weekly, 4 Feb 1921.
Location
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Year
1921
Item Detail
Ernest W. Riggs compares the orphanage at Ghazir, in a Lebanon monastery above Beirut, with the thirteen hundred Armenian children crowded into a dozen houses in Aleppo, and proposes a five-year Armenian center at Jebail for more than a thousand. The Yedi Koule tuberculosis hospital was holding more than a hundred patients in ninety beds. A hundred Russian-Armenian refugees, many of them officers from Wrangel's army, were taking lunches and tea at the Essayan orphanage, and J. E. Van Toor reported 1,400 women and girls at work in the Adana industrial department.
Context
The Near East Relief Weekly Bulletin was a four-page weekly printed in Constantinople for the organization's own staff. It continued The Acorne, the bulletin of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, and took the new title with Vol. II, No. 42 on 23 October 1920, when the organization itself was renamed Near East Relief.
Because it was written for people already in the field and not for donors at home, the Weekly is plainer than anything Near East Relief printed in America. Station reports give the numbers (e.g., children fed, beds occupied, pairs of shoes made, tons landed at Batoum) and the personnel notes record who arrived, who transferred, who married and who died.
The run covers the fall of Kars, the landing of Russian refugees in Constantinople in the winter of 1920, the famine in Armenia through 1921 and 1922, and the French withdrawal from Cilicia.
-
Holding Institution
Columbia University Library
-
External Link
-
Attribution
Digitized by Columbia University Libraries; available through HathiTrust (Public Domain).
-
Rights
No known copyright restrictions. Based on available information, NERHS is not aware of copyright restrictions on this material. Items are presented for non-commercial research and educational use. Users are responsible for determining rights status and compliance with applicable law. If you believe you hold rights in this material or have information about rights holders not currently reflected, please contact [email protected].
-
Notes
Masthead: 'Near East Relief. Vol. III. No. 5. 25 Rue Taxim, Pera, Constantinople. February 4, 1921.'
Most of the people described in these pages were survivors of the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians and of the killing and deportation of Greeks and Assyrians in the same years. The bulletin does not use the word "Genocide," which was not coined until 1944. Its writers say "the deportations", "the massacres", or simply "the troubles", and often say nothing at all about how a child came to be an orphan. Where an issue documents the events or their aftermath, the record indicates this in the Subject field. The period's own vocabulary is kept in the original article titles and in quoted phrases.
-
Document Contents
Ernest W. Riggs compares the Ghazir and Aleppo orphanages and outlines a five-year Armenian center at Jebail for more than 1,000 children; a Philadelphia boy sends postcards to the Narli Kapou orphanage; Russian-Armenian refugees receive food and give a concert at the Essayan orphanage under David Hachigian; a Cilician roster and a report from Aleppo describe mission and relief personnel, Christmas programs and clothing relief; the overcrowded Yedi Koule hospital holds more than 100 patients in ninety beds; J. E. Van Toor reports 1,400 women and girls employed at the Adana Industrial in spinning, knitting, rug making and sewing; Mary Dranga Campbell describes child-welfare work in Serbia; Deurt Yol and Euzerli receive supplies while French projects provide road and rug work; personnel notices record travel and assignments.