Diana Abgar with her granddaughter Dorothy

The photograph shows Diana Abgar with her granddaughter Dorothy. Diana Abgar was born on 17 October 1859.

As the honorary representative of Armenia in Japan, she helped hundreds of survivors of the Armenian Genocide and saved their lives. For her humanitarian and tireless work the people called her “the little mother of the nation”.

In the picture the white-haired elderly woman, in a long checked dress, sits in a wicker armchair holding a baby in a white dress.