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tries, especially England, Germany and Switzerland, she con-
tinued her work for the Armenians until her death.
When the economic crisis reached Syria followed by unem-
ployment, dearth etc., the Armenian refugees were the first to
suffer, as is the lot of refugees, and in the last years of Karen
Jeppe’s life her work was extremely arduous, and told heavily
on her strength.
Also in the villages she had difficulties: drought, locusts, and
other pests, and her old dream of colonisation in Syria on a large
scale was never realised.
In 1935 Karen Jeppe died of malaria at Aleppo. Her funeral
rites were observed in an Armenian church, the Armenian Arch-
bishop officiating. She was mourned not only by her personal
friends, but by the whole Armenian nation.
Her grave is just outside the church near the Armenian quar-
ter. A year after her death a German friend in Aleppo writes:
“Not a day passes without Armenian orphans and widows going
on a pilgrimage to the churchyard. They sit down on the grave
of their mother, bring her flowers and remember her in their
prayers.”
Karen Jeppe’s death caused numerous expressions of sym-
pathy and appreciation from far and near. In the 5 th Committee
of the 1935 Assembly Countess Apponyi, as Chairman of the
Committee, commemorated Miss Jeppe’s services to the League,
seconded by the French representative.
The Danish Foreign Minister, Dr. Munch wrote: “At Geneva
I met Karen Jeppe and foreign politicians have often told me
how much they appreciated her work for the Armenians.”
A Danish officer, Major-General Ernst, who spent a great
part of the years 1926—1928 in Syria as president of the Turco-
Syrian Frontier Commission, gives the following characteristic
picture of Karen Jeppe in a leading Copenhagen paper: “Karen
Jeppe is dead. With her one of the greatest of Danish women,
the greatest I have met in my life, has passed away. She dedicated
her life to the stormtossed Armenian nation, and the help she
gave was so important and so brillantly organised that every
Dane must be thankful and proud to have had such an excellent
representative in the East.