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Maria Jacobsen,
Diaries of a Danish Missionary. Harpoot, 1907-1919

Maria Jacobsen, Diaries of a Danish Missionary. Harpoot, 1907-1919, (Princeton and London: Gomidas Institute) 2001, xxii + 266 pp., illustrations, map, index. ISBN 0-903656-07-9, paper, UK£24.00 / US$32.00

The diaries of Maria Jacobsen, a Danish missionary in the Ottoman Empire, are one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Armenian Genocide. Jacobsen’s personal notes reflect on the conditions surrounding the Ottoman entry into World War I and the genocide of Armenians. The show, on a day-by-day basis, the impact of the war in the small region of Harpoot, and the persistence of the Ottoman Turkish authorities in carrying out the first genocide of the modern era.