The AGBU's Orphanages in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Cyprus
Reception of General Weygand, the French High Commissioner (no. 1), by the orphans and director, Adur Levonian (4), of the Giligian orphanage and vocational school (Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).
ALEPPO: A MAJOR GATHERING-POINT FOR THE ORPHANS
In Aleppo, the biggest orphanage was the one for both boys and girls run by Aharon Shirajian. We have already seen the role it played during World War I. When, after the War, the subsidies that the Germans had been providing it were cut off, the orphanage found itself facing major financial problems. At first, the British replaced the German aid with subsidies of their own. After the British administration left Syria in its turn, late in 1919, the orphanage was administered by NER, and also briefly received a stipend from the French High Commission. But the French allowances, too, were cut off in September 1921, and the American organization was ... Read all