Armenians!  The Farm would not exist today without Steve Aslanian, nor would the Little Red Preschool or Bonhoeffer Gardens. Hundreds of local families should appreciate Steve’s and the Tatoosh Water Co.’s past support. After the First World War, the President of the US spent 6 months (1919) in Paris forging out a new peace, and for Woodrow Wilson, a beloved “League of Nations.”  As part of the American responsibility, the US was to foster and protect the homeland of the Armenians who had just suffered a Holocaust at the hands of the Turks (where over 1,500,000 individuals were murdered in 1915 during WW I). Congress did not ratify the treaty and the US treaty promises went unfulfilled. Here and there churches throughout America opened their doors to the oppressed and this included the Scandinavian Lutheran Church (that itself had many members who had been ethnically cleansed); many took in the “Starving Armenians.” As for the Armenians, Hitler’s comment, when asked about the Jews (and all Polish people) will be long remembered:

                                         ”Wer redet heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier?”
                                ”Who, after all, speaks to-day of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armenian_Genocide_(film)
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
http://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/WW-I-the-Armenians.pdf

The Armenian Holocaust occurred during the Great War, commonly named:

World War III
World War II
World War I

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