Rose Lambert
Rose Lambert (September 8, 1878 – December 27, 1974) 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. Her accounts of the Hadjin siege and Adana massacre provide an important insight into these events. Early life Lambert was born on September 8, 1878, in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of George and Amanda Lambert. Her father was a minister in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church. She graduated from the Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and then became a teacher in Indiana. Turkish mission On November 12, 1898, Lambert went to the Ottoman Empire to work among the Armenian orphans of the Hamidian massacres. She arrived in Hadjin on December 28. By autumn 1899, she had 175 orphans under her care. Eventually, two orphanages were opened, one for boys and another for girls. By 1905, the total number of orphans reached 305. Hadjin siege and Adana massacre In June 1908, the Ittihad or Young Turks movement overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid II and declared the return of constitutional rule, promising equality for all citizens of Turkey regardless of religion. The improved status of