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    ՀԲԸ Միութեան Հալէպի Ապաստանարան-Արհեստանոցը (1920-1927)
    (2018) Dakessian, Antranik
    Between 1915 and 1917, during the Armenian Genocide, a number of Armenian women and teenage girls were ill-treated and raped on the deportation roads and in the desert camps. Others were kidnapped and still others were taken to houses where they were treated as slaves and physically molested. A small number of women were forced to trade their bodies for survival. The fate of these abused women and girls was critical and needed to be addressed as soon as WWI ended and the Allied Forces took control of the area. As early as 1918 shelter houses were established in different localities like Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad and Alexandria. Some of these were run by the American Near East Relief Society and other non-Armenian philanthropic groups. The paper studies the Aleppo Shelter-Home. It was founded by the Oriortats Miyutiun in June 1919, sponsored by the AGBU and, as of January 1920, owned by the AGBU but administered and managed by the said Miyutiun. The paper is abused on the extensive (yet short-lived) correspondence and reporting, which existed between the shelter home and the AGBU periodical, and notes. The paper examines the inception and mission of the Shelter-Home, as well as life in it, those who were accepted, the process of their rehabilitation, the care given, the crafts taught (so that the women could make a living) and their eventual reintegration into the Armenian space at large.