Vorpahavak

Library of Congress caption: "Armenians rescued from Arabs"

Following the Armenian genocide, vorpahavak (Armenian: որբահաւաք; lit.'gathering of orphans') was the organized effort to rescue "hidden" Armenian women and children who had survived the genocide by being abducted and adopted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.


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