After the outbreak of World War I , massacres and mass killings of Armenians were conducted by the Young Turks . Jeppe tried to organize rescue efforts and help the Armenian refugees driven through Urfa , on their way to the death camps in the Syrian desert of Deir ez-Zor , providing food and water and hiding many of them under the floor of her house . She never left Urfa during the war and helped many Armenians to escape by disguising them as Kurds and Arabs . After World War I she was forced , due to ill-health , to return to Denmark in 1918 , where she campaigned on behalf of Armenians
massacres and mass killings of Armenians
Armenian Genocide
Karen Jeppe