Alma Johansson

Swedish missionary

Alma Johansson
Alma Viktoria Leontina Johansson (29 October 1880–31 December 1974) was a Swedish missionary who worked in the city of Mush in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. Life. In 1901, the Missionary Society of Swedish women sent Johansson to Mush (Western Armenia), where she stayed until December 1915. There she worked for the German Hilfsbund-Orphanage for Armenian children. On the outbreak of World War I, the atrocities against the empire's Christian minorities escalated and she became an eyewitness to these crimes against humanity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Johansson

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