ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS AND PRISONERS_OF_WAS IN PALESTINE
The accelerating progress of the British forces in Palestine in the first months of 1918 made it possible to take several thousand more deportees in hand in the Allied-occupied zones. Most were natives of Cilicia. Some had been found in the places to which they had been deported, while others had struck out for the British lines when news of the British march northwards reached their ears. Thus several thousand deportees living in Damascus and nearby villages had fled southwest toward the Jabal Druze, where there was no Ottoman presence to speak of. They took temporary refuge there, in the hope that they might later make their way toward the British or Arab forces by trekking across the desert, if necessary.
In February 1918, the AGBU learned that some nine hundred genocide survivors were living in Tafila, about sixty miles south of Amman just south of the Dead Sea. They urgently needed help. Their caravan had originally included about ten thousand people, most of them from Gürün, Marash, Hajin, Dörtyol, Kesaria, and Mardin. In October 1915, Read all
Humanitarian Assistance to Genocide Survivors in Palestine, 1917-1918
Makruhi Nedurian, supervisor of the orphanage and school in Port Said (Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).
Women and children rescued in Der'a in spring 1918
(Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).