Children were an important target during the Genocide. Many of them were kidnapped and converted to Islam. It was much easier to convert young Christians to Islam than the old ones.
In the picture the girls with the dolls are on the north-western shore of Lake Van. The author of the photo is the Norwegian photographer, missioner Bodil Katharine Biørn. Bodil saved from death and nursed hundreds of homeless children and women in Western Armenia.
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