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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Tues., Jan. 13, 2015, Dr. Taner Akcam will present an illustrated talk entitled, “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Aleppo Rescue House of the League of Nations,” at 8 p.m., at the Charles and Nevart Talanian Cultural Hall of Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge. The event is co-sponsored by the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair at Clark University, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

After World War I ended, the newly formed League of Nations initiated projects to rescue Armenian Genocide survivors who were being involuntarily held in Muslim households. One of these projects was a rescue house in Aleppo run by Danish missionary Karen Jeppe that became active in 1921.

The organization rescued many women and children whose identity information and short personal history—where they were from, what had happened to them, and how they had survived, etc.—was recorded in special ledgers. The documentation is in English, and oftentimes the children and women were photographed. The vast majority of the 1,664 records created between 1922 and 1930 are still intact.

A project to translate and publish these documents in Turkish has been initiated by Taner Akcam, Dicle Bilgin Akar, and Matthias Bjornlund. The Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies and NAASR have provided a grant to support this project, which will bring selected stories to the Turkish reader as a book and publish them all online. It is hoped that this will contribute substantially to the better understanding of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, where the level of knowledge remains extremely low.

In this special presentation, Akcam will provide an overview of the project, its relevance to the field of genocide studies, and in particular the importance of making these materials available in Turkey.

Taner Akcam is the author of From Empire To Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide, A Shameful Act: the Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility, The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, as well as numerous articles in Turkish, German, and English. He holds the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Akcam’s presentation will be preceded by a 6:30 p.m. dinner. To reserve a seat for dinner ($20), call (617) 223-7520. The lecture is open to all; a donation to support this endeavor is politely requested from those attending.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Tues., Jan. 13, 2015, Dr. Taner Akcam will present an illustrated talk entitled, “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Aleppo Rescue House of the League of Nations,” at 8 p.m., at the Charles and Nevart Talanian Cultural Hall of Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge. The event is co-sponsored by the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair at Clark University, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Taner Akcam After World War I ended, the newly formed League of Nations initiated projects to rescue Armenian Genocide survivors who were being involuntarily held in Muslim households. One of these projects was a rescue house in Aleppo run by Danish missionary Karen Jeppe that became active in 1921. The organization rescued many women and children whose identity information and short personal history—where they were from, what had happened to them, and how they had survived, etc.—was recorded in special ledgers. The documentation is in English, and oftentimes the children and women were photographed. The vast majority of the 1,664 records created between 1922 and 1930 are still intact. A project to translate and publish these documents in Turkish has been initiated [...]

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Tues., Jan. 13, 2015, Dr. Taner Akcam will present an illustrated talk entitled, “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Aleppo Rescue House of the League of Nations,” at 8 p.m., at the Charles and Nevart Talanian Cultural Hall of Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge. The event is co-sponsored by the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair at Clark University, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Taner Akcam After World War I ended, the newly formed League of Nations initiated projects to rescue Armenian Genocide survivors who were being involuntarily held in Muslim households. One of these projects was a rescue house in Aleppo run by Danish missionary Karen Jeppe that became active in 1921. The organization rescued many women and children whose identity information and short personal history—where they were from, what had happened to them, and how they had survived, etc.—was recorded in special ledgers. The documentation is in English, and oftentimes the children and women were photographed. The vast majority of the 1,664 records created between 1922 and 1930 are still intact. A project to translate and publish these documents in Turkish has been initiated [...]

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