JERUSALEM: THE AGBU’S VAGBURAGAN AND ARARADIAN ORPHANAGES
In 1921, nearly eight hundred Armenian orphans whom the British authorities had left to fend for themselves were still roaming the streets of Nahr el Omar, Iraq. Most of them came from Van or Persian Azerbaijan and had been wards of the orphanage in Baquba; others had been placed in the orphanage in Mosul. Initial plans had been to send these children to Armenia by way of Batum, but the British authorities in Iraq had had to abandon this project, which was thwarted by the instability then reigning in the Caucasus and the famine that was raging in Armenia.
The AGBU decided to shoulder the responsibility for these hundreds of orphans. An agreement was reached between the Union, on the one hand, and the British and NER, on the other. The fate of the children of Nahr el Omar had been the object of negotiations involving Janig Tchaker, a member of the AGBU’s executive board, General Ronald Storrs, the British High Commissioner for Palestine, and James Nicol, head of NER in Syria. The Armenian and American organizations agreed to take joint charge of these orphans, ... Read all
The AGBU's Orphanages in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Cyprus