Armenian leader Papasian looking at the human remains of the terrible
massacres at Der-el-Zor in 1915-1916.
Other bones have been washed away by the Euphrates
Collection of Bodil Biorn
Euphrates near Deir-el-Zor, where so many of the deported were murdered.
The river hides dark memories
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National feast, dancers at St. Garabed
(4-17th centuries, fully destroyed in 1915)
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Part of the large refugee camp in Aleppo, where about 12 000 people were living
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A poor Armenian widow with her skinny little boy
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Four generations in an Armenian refugee home in Beirut
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Bodil Biorn's fostered son Rupen, Mush
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A poor Armenian vagrant family who received help
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Nurse Bodil Bodil on "Olaf"
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"One of the classes in the day-school in Mush with their teacher Margarid"
The teacher Margarid Nalbanchian and
most of the 120 children of the day-school were murdered in 1915".
The quoted text was written by Bodil Biorn in verso of the photo.
They all were murdered in 1915
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Chatschig from Siareb, a village near Mush, one of our boys.
He was murdered in the massacres
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Some of little Armenians girls with their dolls
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Ten children who had new clothes made for them for Christmas
1908 for money sent from a local group of WMW in Norway
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The holy tomb of John Babtizers in St. Garabed
(4th century, fully destroyed in 1915)
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The Monastary St. Garabed (4th century, fully destroyed in 1915)
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Widow Ankin Aslanjan
Norwegian State archive
Armenian woman Arek Manukyan with her children, Mush 1916
Collection of Bodil Biorn
Norwegian State archive
Widow Gulo Bedrossian
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Widow Jeghsa Jeghiasarian
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Widow Jeghsa Jeghiasarian
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Widow Jevnige Harutunian
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Widow Mawie Bedrossian
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Widow Rejas Harutyunyan with her children, Mush 1916
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Norwegian State archive
Widow Shushan Sarkissian
Collection of Bodil Biorn