1. Rose Lambert was an American missionary in the Ottoman Empire who was the Matron of the orphanage in Hadjin during and after the 1909 massacres of Armenians in Cilicia.
11 Facts About Rose Lambert
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Rose Lambert's father was a minister in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church.
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Rose Lambert graduated from the Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and then became a teacher in Indiana.
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On November 12,1898, Rose Lambert went to the Ottoman Empire to work among the Armenian orphans of the Hamidian massacres.
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News of killings of Armenians soon reached the neighbouring town of Hadjin, where Rose Lambert was still employed in her missionary work, through telegrams and via a trickle of accounts from refugees.
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Rose Lambert later wrote a book, Hadjin and the Armenian Massacres, in which she gave a more detailed account of her experiences in Hadjin during the 1909 turmoil.
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Rose Lambert relates how after many attempts to raise the alarm, a regiment of 300 soldiers was dispatched from Feke to end the siege, but instead of dispersing the besiegers, the regiment apparently joined them.
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Rose Lambert's book closes with a number of personal stories related to her by survivors of the massacres.
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Rose Lambert returned to the United States in 1910, and married Texas rancher David Musselman the following year, on October 4,1911.
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Rose Lambert is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Victoria County, Texas.
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In H Poghosyan's book, published in 1942, The General History of Hadjin, Rose Lambert was described as a "Saviour Angel for many during the self-defence of Hadjin".