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NER moves children from Anatolia to safety. New Near East, Jan 1923.
Location
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Year
1923
Item Detail
The consequences of the Smyrna fire and the forced migration from Eastern Thrace were still unfolding. Near East Relief moved children out of interior Anatolia and supplied camps holding Greek and Armenian refugees. This issue follows refugees and children displaced from Smyrna, Eastern Thrace, and interior Anatolia. Reports describe camps, blanket shortages, child evacuations, hospitals in Erivan, roadside feeding, and plans for farms and resettlement.
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
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External Link
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Attribution
Near East Foundation Collection, Rockefeller Archive Center
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Rights
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Notes
Masthead: Vol. VIII, No. II, January 1923. Published by Near East Relief, New York.
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Document Contents
* “The Pleas of the Patriarchs,” by James Cannon Jr., records September interviews with Greek Patriarch Meletios and Armenian Patriarch Zaven after the Smyrna fire and the flight from Eastern Thrace.
* “President Harding’s Appeal for Near East Relief” asks for aid for 1,250,000 refugees from Asia Minor, 480,000 from Smyrna, and 500,000 from Thrace.
* “Where a Million Blankets are Needed” prints Lincoln L. Wirt’s description of refugees in damaged waterfront buildings.
* “Near East Relief’s Incubator” records Isaac Yonan’s visit to John B. Evans and reports 2,000 children in Erivan hospitals and 4,000 in orphanages.
* “The Migration of Children to Safety” reports that more than 20,000 Christian children had left interior Asia Minor, which included 4,000 from Harpoot, while Greece faced about 1,000,000 refugees.
* “Little Citizens of the Refugee World” is a photographic survey of orphan and refugee life.
* “An Army of Dead,” by Otis Swift, describes camps at Harmankioi in Macedonia.
* “The Armenian Farmer and American Methods,” by William A. Biby, argues for irrigation, farm machinery, and credit.
* “Refugee Pictures by Cable” prints reports from George DeForest White at Samsoun and John H. Crutcher in the interior, with frozen feet, hot-soup stations, and 5,000 people from Sivas.
* “Is There Starvation Still?” prints Biby’s eyewitness account of famine deaths.
* “All that He Pitifully Could” records Robert Dillon’s gifts of $57.50 and $100 while he was ill with tuberculosis.


