A SYMPOSIUM WILL BE HELD IN MEMORY OF MARIA JACOBSEN TO COMMEMORATE THE 94TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

AZG
April 23 2009
Armenia

Friday 24th April 2009 from 16.30 – 19.00 at: Pensionhighschool
Fredericiagade 84, 1. CopenhagenThe Committee will mark the memory
of two Danish missionaries: Miss Maria Jacobsen [1982-1960] and
Miss Karen Jeppe [1876-1935] Maria Jacobsens wrote a diary during
the time she worked as a nurse in the American hospital in Harpoot
[Kharpert] covering the period between 1907-1919. She later moved to
the new Annie Tracy Riggs Hospital which opened in Mezreh, located
at Villayet Mamurat-Ul-Aziz in former Ottoman Empires, Turkey.

Over decades K.M.A [Woman’s Missionary Workers] has raised thousands of
kroners and sent dozens of missionaries for Armenian relief. Maria
Jacobsen, who stayed at her post during the Armenian Genocide,
recorded her own eyewitness account on local conditions while the
Ottoman government carried out its programme of annihilating the
Armenians under the cover of World War I.

Until recently the original diary was available only in facsimile form
attached to the Armenian version, translated, edited and introduced
in 1979 by Nerses Pakhdikian and Mihran Simonian

The committee has made a fair copy of the diary. The manuscript is
almost finished; it has been edited from old Danish to modern Danish
and ready to be published in a digitized format. The Committee,
therefore, is holding a symposium to introduce a Limited Edition
of the diary to the general public. The book which contains an
introduction, some articles of lightning accessories and annotation,
is to be published in September 2009.