Sorrow is Turned to Joy: A Play about the 1909 Adana Massacres, Staged by Armenian Genocide Survivors in Greece

Authors

  • Matthias Bjørnlund www.armenocide.net
  • Iben Hendel Philipsen IP Words

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0004

Abstract

In April 1924, a group of Armenian women genocide survivors in the care of a Danish missionary organization in Thessaloniki staged a play; Sorrow is Turned to Joy, based on the 1909 Adana massacres. The article briefly explores the framework and context of the missionary organization, the actors, and the theatrical performance, followed by a translation of the entire play from Danish into English.

Author Biographies

Matthias Bjørnlund, www.armenocide.net

Historian and archival researcher specializing in the Armenian genocide and related issues, author of a Danish monograph on the Armenian genocide. He was lecturer at the Danish Institute for Study abroad in Copenhagen until 2014 and is currently working on a couple of books. 2015 he will be teaching a course on the Armenian genocide at an open university. He is co-editor of www.armenocide.net.

Iben Hendel Philipsen, IP Words

Bi-lingual Danish and English, professional translator and owner of IPWords with a Master of Arts in English/Postcolonial Studies from the University of Copenhagen (2014), prior to which she worked as an actor and director for 17 years.

References

Axel Gram, Blandt Armeniske Flygtninge i Grækenland. Med Erindringer af den Tidligere Armeniermissionær Margrethe Jepsen, (Industrimissionen i Grækenland (Dansk Armeniermission i Grækenland), 1953).

Industrimissionens Blad 1 4 (December 1922).

”City a Mass of Wreckage,” New York Times, 15 September 1922; H. L. Larsen, Et Folk i Nød: Træk af Armeniernes Trængsler (Aarhus: Industrimissionen i Armenien, 1933).

The Orient, 9 10 (October 1922): 93-94.

Suzanne Khardalian, Grandma’s Tattoos (Sweden 2011).

The Past under Our Skin, “A very wild publication: The slave market news”, https://thepastunderourskin.wordpress.com/

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Published

2014-09-05

How to Cite

Bjørnlund, M., & Philipsen, I. H. (2014). Sorrow is Turned to Joy: A Play about the 1909 Adana Massacres, Staged by Armenian Genocide Survivors in Greece. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 1(1), 70–86. https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0004

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies

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Articles

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