Armenian Genocide, Armenian Refugees in Jerusalem, 1918

Armenian refugees from far away provinces in Asia Minor, concentrated in Jerusalem shortly after Easter 1918. Fed and clothed by the Syria and Palestine Relief fund through American gifts. Prior to WWI, there were some 2, 000-3, 000 Armenians in Palestine, mostly in Jerusalem. From 1915 and onward, thousands of Armenian Genocide survivors from Adana Vilayet found refuge, and settled in the quarter, increasing its population. The Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. The genocide was carried out during and after WWI and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. The deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre

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