Beatrice Rohner ( German Beatrice Rohner ; April 24, 1876, Basel - February 9, 1947, Wustenroth ) - a Swiss Protestant theologian , missionary [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] ; known for participating in the rescue of a group of Armenian orphans from Aleppo .
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Biography
Beatrice Roner was born on April 24, 1876 in Basel ; She attended the Basel teacher training workshop and worked as a private teacher in Paris . In 1899 she joined the German Union for Christian Work in the East (Deutschen Hilfsbund fr. Christliches Liebeswerk im Orient) and the Society for Assisting the Victims of the Armenian Pogroms of 1895-1896 (Armenierhilfswerk). Roner was a teacher and mother Superior of the Kahramanmarash shelter. In 1916, she saved a group of Armenian orphans from Aleppo : in August, 750 orphans were under the tutelage of Roner; assisted prisoners at Deir ez-Zor concentration camp. Rohner fainted when she learned that the authorities of the Ottoman Empire in March 1917 seized her orphans within the framework of the Armenian Genocide :
| The last thing I saw at the station, it was a special train designed for orphans. Then the veil of darkness fell on both the children and me. |
Only in 1926 did Roner learn that not a single child died or stayed in Turkey . After a long recovery, since 1932, she worked as secretary of the “Deutschen Frauen-Missions-Gebetsbunds” society in Wustenroth and conducted research activities. Died after World War II , February 9, 1947.
Memory
In 2014, a stele was planted and a tree was planted in Milan on the “Walk of Justice” in memory of Roner.
Works
- Worte für Wanderer zur Herrlichkeit: Gedanken über den Hebräerbrief, Gießen Basel Brunnen-Verl. 1938
- Was Jesus an Frauen zu tun vermag, Frankfurt aM: Deutscher Hülfsbund für christliches Liebeswerk im Orient, 1903.
Literature
- Gedenkschrift für Schwester Beatrice Rohner. Kurth Reith Verlag, Wüstenrot 1947.
- H. Kaiser: At the Crossroads of Der Zor. 2001, pp. 36-71.
- H.-L. Kieser: “ La missionnaire Béatrice R. face au génocide des Arméniens ”. In: J. Sémelin et al. (Hrsg.): La résistance aux génocides. 2008, p. 383–398.
- Abel Manoukian: Bearing Witness to Humanity: Switzerland’s Humanitarian Contribution During the Ottoman Empire 1894–1923, 2018.
Notes
- ↑ Hans-Lukas Kieser. A quest for a relative: Anatolia beyond empire and nation (19th-21st centuries) . - Isis Press, 2007. - p. 219. - 504 p. - ISBN 9789754283457 .
- ↑ Martin Tamcke. "Dich, Ararat, vergesse ich nie!": Neue Beiträge zum Schicksal Armeniens und der Armenier . - LIT Verlag Münster, 2006. - p. 58. - 142 p. - ISBN 9783825800185 .
- ↑ Hans-Lukas Kieser, Elmar Plozza. Armenian genocide, Turkey and Europe . - Chronos, 2006. - p. 16. - 248 p. - ISBN 9783034007894 .
- ↑ D. Crowe. War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History . - Springer, 2014. - 629 p. - ISBN 9781137037015 .
- ↑ Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide . - Springer, 2018. - p. 140. - 269 p. - ISBN 9783319697871 .
- ↑ Hilmar Kaiser. At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death, Survival, and Humanitarian Resistance in Aleppo, 1915-1917 . - Gomidas Institute, 2002. - p. 6. - 140 p. - ISBN 9781903656129 .
- ↑ Nefissa Naguib, Inger Marie Okkenhaug. Interpreting Welfare and Relief in the Middle East . - BRILL, 2008. - p. 81. - 255 p. - ISBN 9004164367 .
- ↑ Guenter Lewy. The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide . - University of Utah Press, 2005. - p. 194-196. - 396 s. - ISBN 9780874808490 .
Links
- Narine Margaryan. Beatrice Roner - missionary from Switzerland . Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide (May 12, 2016). The appeal date is May 27, 2018.
- Hans-Lukas Kieser. Rohner, Beatrice . Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz, Bern (June 3, 2010). The appeal date is May 27, 2018.