When Jessie Penn-Lewis, a feminist activist, came to Denmark from England in 1898, she helped form the Women's Missionary Workers (K.M.A.

[4] When Maria Jacobsen arrived in Kharpert, she immediately started working in the American hospital located in the area.

"[6][7] On July 6, Maria Jacobsen and Danish missionary Tacy Atkinson reported that 800 of the males thirteen years and older who were arrested were "massacred" in a gorge.

[7][8] Jacobsen then wrote about males over the age of nine who were taken to a mosque under the guardianship of "Kurds and gendarmes" who returned with their clothes covered with blood.

[7][8] Jacobsen described the situation of the Armenian orphans and the famine throughout the city: We lived this way for a year in fear that all the children would die of hunger.

Jacobsen reported that the Turkish authorities demanded from the American missionaries to hand over the orphans, however, when this happened, many of them were killed.

This we need in these distressing times that the friends at home share in our suffering and carry us forward to the Mercy Seat.It was during this period that Jacobsen adopted three children.

The first, Hansa, had fled the Bedouin family she was sold into and hid in a tree until she became unconscious from sickness and fell, where a Turk police officer and Jacobsen found her.

Lee Vrooman, 21, the driver of one of the supply trucks that delivered goods to Harpoot, was so impressed by Jacobsen, now 36, that he wrote to his mother about her.

[10]He went on at great length, finally concluding, “Believe me, she did a wonderful work, and she is just a youngster herself.”[10] What he may not have known was that during these four-and-a-half years, Jacobsen had also suffered for six months from typhus fever and cerebrospinal meningitis.

We did not see her everyday; she sat among us for the Sunday dinner, making sure we all got a fair helping of boiled potatoes and pork belly.

After going to her native Denmark, she went to the United States where she gave a series of lectures and speeches on the plight of the Armenian people and the massacres that they have been subjected to.

After moving to Zouk Michail in July 1922, she helped establish an orphanage which sheltered 208 Armenian children from the region of Cilicia.