Ter Voghormya Mush - 1915

A tribute to the Norwegian photographer and missionary, Bodil Catharina Biorn (1871-1960) who spent from 1905 thirty years of her life providing relief to the Armenians of Turkey before, during and after the Armenian Genocide, and in the First Republic of Armenia (1918-20). After the sovietization of Armenia, she continued her philathropical work in Armenian orphanages of Syria and Lebanon, where she adopted an orphan she named Fridtjof. She finally left the region to return to Norway in 1936. In 2004 by the initiative of the Armenian community of Aleppo, Syria, the Norwegian city of Kragero, Biorn’s home town has erected a statue honouring Bodil Catharina Biorn.