The AGBU’s newly reorganized Damascus chapter focused on three tasks: providing the refugees medical care, rounding up orphans, and assisting abandoned adolescent girls and young women. Just after the World War, it was estimated that around thirty thousand deportees were living in Damascus and that several tens of thousands more were to be found in areas further to the south.52 According to Catholicos Sahag II, whose residence was in Damascus at war’s end, the city held twenty-five thousand deportees in November 1918.53
For all these uprooted people, the only way to resume living a normal life and become self-supporting again was ... Read all
Damascus: Assembling and Repatriating the Deportees
The medical staff of the AGBU hospital and health clinic in Damascus. Center: Dr. K. Kapamajian
(Coll. Bibl. Nubar/ Paris).
Rupen Ejzajian (1878-1930), a leading member of the AGBU branch in Damascus (Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).