Director/Producer: Bared Maronian

The documentary WOMEN OF 1915 combines facts and emotion to honor these brave women of the Armenian Genocide, many of whom lost their lives, survived to create new lives, or were forced into lives that were not their own. Many women, Armenian, European, and American, also traveled great distances to rescue lives, even at the risk of their own. Among the women highlighted in the film are survivors, volunteers, and resisters, including survivor Aurora Mardiganian, American volunteer Mary Louise Graffam, diplomat Diana Apkar, and Danish missionary Maria Jacobsen.

The truth about genocides and wars throughout history, women have played a huge part in the survival of entire nations down to saving their villages.  This documentary will premiere at the ARPA Film Festival, Saturday November 5, 2016 @ 3:45 pm at the historical Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles 

http://www.arpafilmfestival.com/documentary-film-women-1915-bared-maronian-2016-arpa-iff/

Marie Jacobsen "Mama Jacobsen" was a Danish Lutheran missionary, who traveled in 1915 from Denmark to the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) when she learned of the extermination of Armenians within its boundaries and on forced death marches to the Syrian desert. More than 1.5 million were killed in what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide.

Jacobsen worked in the hospitals assisting Armenian people. The records she kept during this time have been credited as some of the most meaningful proof of the genocide, which Turkey still disputes. During her time in the eastern Ottoman Empire, she encountered numerous orphans of parents who were taken away by Turkish forces.

When the genocide ended in 1922, Jacobsen moved many of the children to an orphanage she established near Beirut, Lebanon. She was buried there following her death in 1960.

Learn about many more great women who left the comforts of their home to help people they don't even know across the globe.  Brave Women is what keeps our species alive and well, Women fighting for human rights !!! 

http://santamariatimes.com/danish-missionary-to-be-honored-at-bethania-lutheran/article_ed671ce7-3955-5273-8395-fd2cfb402df3.html