Armenian Genocide Museum - Clara Barton

Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Gilted brass
27.0g 38mm
Plain
Proof
100 pcs.
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H. Samuelian

Clara Barton, founder and chairperson of the U.S. Red Cross, was born in 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. Clara Barton, because of her humanitarian activities, became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the Civil War in U.S.
Becoming aware on the wholesale massacres perpetrated against Armenians in 1895-1896, Clara Barton arrived in Constantinople in 1896 and for about a year coordinated the efforts of providing material aid to the suffering homeless people. Thanks to C. Barton's efforts Armenian survivors of the massacres were provided with shelter, food, medicine and clothing. Due to many obstacles created by the Ottoman authorities C. Barton was forced to leave to US.
By the end of 1897 Clara Barton together with a number of her colleagues published a special report on their humanitarian activities in the Ottoman Empire.