Nellie Miller Mann was born to parents Abram Rohrer and Selena Bell ( Wade ) Miller in Elkhart , Indiana on March 27 , 1897 . During her early life , she became a member of the Mennonite Church . Mann then went to Goshen , Indiana where she attended Goshen College . She studied there from 1918 to 1921 . While studying there , she had overheard of the situation regarding the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire . Having been motivated to help , Orie Miller , the leader of the Mennonite Relief Commission , which later became known as Mennonite Central Committee , arranged for a number of Mennonite young men to go to Russia , Turkey and Syria under the Near East Relief Foundation to assist the refugees and orphans . After joining the Near East Relief , she immediately set sail to Syria where she was to assist Armenian refugees who have been deported outside of the Ottoman Empire as a result of the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Nellie Miller-Mann