Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Greek Genocide The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.[1] The committee was also known as simply the Greek Relief Committee.

Executive Board

  • Chairman: Frank W. Jackson
  • Honorary Chairman: Jacob Gould Schurman
  • Vice-Chairman: Basile D. Dugundji
  • Secretary: John P. Xenides
  • Treasurer: Abraham E. Kazan (resigned in November 1917), Rollin P. Grant

Operations

The GRC worked through a network of foreign consuls, missionaries and relief workers located at various points in the Ottoman Empire. In doing so, its working methods were similar to those of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR), which was also in action during World War I. It also cooperated with American diplomatic institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki to aid refugees arriving from Turkey.[1]

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. a b Nikolaos Hlamides, "The Greek Relief Committee: America's Response to the Greek GenocideScript error: No such module "Unsubst".," Genocide Studies and Prevention 3, 3 (December 2008): 375–383

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".