Vorpahavak Explained
Following the Armenian genocide, vorpahavak (hy|որբահաւաք;) was the organized effort to rescue "hidden" Armenian women and children who had survived the genocide by being abducted and adopted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.
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